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Entertainment & Sports

Nov. 6, 2014

Celebrities getting SLAPPed around

A court's recent finding - that an issue of public interest is simply any issue the public is interested in - has serious repercussions. By Stanton L. Stein and Dana P. Tykocinski


By Stanton L. Stein and Dana P. Tykocinski


As reality network programming, pop culture tabloids and social media websites have increasingly hijacked the entertainment landscape in the U.S., actors, non-actors celebrities and non-celebrities, often fall prey to "not-so-real," manufactured dramatization and unauthorized or inaccurate portrayal of their persona and actions. The legislative and judicial branches have sought to avoid the potential harms pos...

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