Lifetime Entertainment Services LLC won dismissal Thursday of claims it violated the privacy rights of a man convicted of murdering his father in producing the made-for-TV movie “Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story,” after a New York appeals court found a newsworthiness exception applies.
Christopher Porco and his mother Joan Porco alleged their depictions in the film were inaccurate and offensive to them.
Because there is no common-law privacy right in New York, the right to privacy is governed exclusively by the state Civil Rights Law, which bars the commercial use of a person’s name or likeness without consent, the ...
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