The law of motion pictures (1918)

Record Details:

Title:
The law of motion pictures
Date:
1918
Publisher:
New York : Baker, Voorhis and Company
Volume:
The law of motion pictures : including the law of the theatre
Leaf #:
000331
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Early Cinema
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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CHAPTER VI THE PUBLIC Right of Privacy Sec. 86. In general. 87. When liable under statute. 88. When not liable under statute. 89. When use of name or picture is libelous. 90. Weekly news motion pictures. Section 86. — In general. When we come to review the rights of the public in their relation to the motion picture industry, we must take up as of paramount importance the “right of privacy.” This is a very recent development of the law, and is evidentiary of the growing tendency of the courts and law-making bodies to protect the citizen in his personal rights as well as in his property rights. The policy of the English common law has in the main been a policy of protection of property rights. For the protection of his personal rights the individual was relegated to the narrow limits of his remedy in tort or to the criminal branch of the law. The person of the individual was considered a thing apart from his brain, his mind, his feelings and the entire incorporeal part of him. So that when the phrase “personal injury” was used, reference was had to a physical 267