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· 12/27/1990

Finger v. Omni Publications International., Ltd.

Citations

  • 77 N.Y.2d 138
  • 18 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1555
  • 566 N.E.2d 141
  • 564 N.Y.S.2d 1014
  • 1990 N.Y. LEXIS 4464

How courts have described this case

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  • arguing that the photographs at issue in Finger were not 'substantially fictionalized' like the ones at issue in Fils-Aime, Thompson v. Close-Up, Inc., 277 A.D. 848, 98 N.Y.S.2d 300, 301 (1950
  • arguing that the photographs at issue in Finger were not 'substantially fictionalized' like the ones at issue in Fils-Aime, Thompson v. Close-Up, Inc., 277 A.D. 848, 98 N.Y.S.2d 300, 301 (1950), and Metzger v. Dell Publishing, 207 Misc. 182, 136 N.Y.S.2d 888, 891 (1955)
  • noting that “the ‘newsworthiness exception’ should be liberally applied”
  • photograph of adults and children newsworthy where used to illustrate magazine article
  • “real relationship” between photograph of plaintiffs family and article on caffeine-aided in vitro fertilization, even where none of plaintiffs children had been conceived by in vitro fertilization and plaintiff had not participated in caffeine-aided fertility project

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Judges: Alexander

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