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20 UCLA J.L. & Tech. [i] (2016)

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Spring 2016                      www.lawtechjournal.com                   Volume  20, Issue 1


     UCLA Journal of Law & Technology


COPYRIGHT TO THE RESCUE: SHOULD COPYRIGHT PROTECT PRIVACY?

                                       Deidre A. Keller1






I.   IN T R O D U C T IO N  ..........................................................................................................................1

II.  RECENT  PRIVACY   CASES BROUGHT UNDER THE GUISE OF COPYRIGHT CLAIMS ......................3

III. PRIVACY  LAW,  IN BRIEF...........................................................................................................7

  A .  G eneral P rincip les  .................................................................................................................7

     i.  P riv acy is  P erso n al............................................................................................................8

     ii. The  Privacy Tort and the Constitutional Right to Privacy are Distinct ............................8

  B .  C onstitutional Protections .....................................................................................................8

     i.  D ecisio n al  P riv acy  ............................................................................................................9

     ii. Reasonable  Expectation of Privacy ................................................................................11

     iii. The First Amendment  and Privacy  .................................................................................12

     iv. Constitutional Privacy Protections: A Brief Wrap-Up  ...................................................15

  C .  T he Invasion of Privacy T ort ..............................................................................................16



1 Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University. I am grateful to have been invited by Jeremy Sheff to present an
early draft of this paper at the St. John's IP Colloquium in April 2015. It was a pleasure to engage with the students
and faculty who participated. A draft of this Article was also presented at the 39th Annual Law Review Symposium
at Ohio Northern University. I was humbled to be invited by Joshua Lanphear, Editor-in-Chief of the Ohio Northern
University Law Review, and Kourtney Brueckner, Symposium Editor. The conversations that took place that day
certainly shaped my thinking as I was revising this piece and I am grateful to have had them. Additionally, I am
indebted to Eva Subotnik for her continued interest in this project and her comments at various stages. And, I also
must thank Lateef Mtima, Anjali Vats, Joanne Brant, and Stephen Veltri, all of whom provided encouragement
along the way. I am also indebted to Pamela Samuelson who offered comments on a draft, and to Ken Gormley who
I had the pleasure of meeting at a conference at Duquesne. My conversation with then Dean Gormley had a
singularly influential impact on my thinking about privacy as a jurisprudential concept. This project never would
have been completed without the help I received from my research assistants, Christopher Todd Mosley, Laura
Waymire, Eden Adkins, and Jennifer English. All errors and omissions are mine alone. Finally, I must thank my
family: my husband, whose patience, consistency, and competence make it possible for me to do the work and
whose love for me sustains me; my sister, whose belief in me is unwavering; and my children, MJ, Kiarra, Damon,
Orion, Eon, and Reggie who are my inspiration, always.

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