Day: 22 March 2010

The English law has not, traditionally, recognized what French lawyers call “image rights”.  In the United States such rights are an aspect of the tort of privacy – the so-called “right to publicity” (for a recent case on these see here).   But English law has, up to now, not recognised such rights.  This means that, unless some issue of libel, copyright or “passing off” arises, the media can publish any photograph of a person, without their consent.

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