People v. Galler

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• stating that the facts of the case did not incline it to adopt the tort
• noting that for purposes of the newsworthiness exception, “ ‘public interest’ [is] clearly a term to be freely defined”
• stating that it did not reach the issue
• even if New York were to recognize a false light claim, unauthorized use of private individual’s photograph to illustrate “ ‘materialistic, status-conscious’ ” black middle class, does not measure up to the highly offensive standard
• use of plaintiff’s picture in news article did not violate statute
• pictures illustrating an article on a matter of public interest do not fall within statute’s purview even “though the dissemination of news and views is car ried on for a profit or ... illustrations are added for the very purpose' of encouraging sales of the publications”

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