34 in the united states anyone considering filing a

34. In the United States, anyone considering filing a libel claim has one year from
the date the material was published to file
35. Which of the following is not among the criteria for the successful application
of the “wire service defense”?
36. The opinion defense is considered the constitutional equivalent of fair
comment and criticism
37. Which of the following is not a libel defense? 38. Courts have determined that under section 230 gossip websites like
thedirty.com are protected the same as internet service providers (ISPs).
39. When does the neutral reportage defense apply?

40. The libel defenses of a fair comment and criticism and opinion are the same
Quiz 6
1. The way courts accept and apply the four privacy torts
2. The U.S. Supreme court has ruled in only two false light cases. In both those
rulings the court held that all false light plaintiffs must prove actual malice to
win their cases
3. A false light plaintiff must prove the story 4. A newspaper photographer who is on a public sidewalk never can commit
intrusion
5. False light differs from libel because 6. Successful appropriation suits may be based on advertisements, posters, and
news stories
7. If courts in a state rule that the right of publicity is a property right, that
means
8. A person with a television camera sneaks across the mayor’s lawn, peeks
through barely open curtains, and takes a picture of the mayor in a darkened
living room. The photographer decides that he has done a terrible thing and
exposes the film, so the picture is never printed. The mayor will likely lose an
intrusion suit because the photographer remedied the situation by exposing
the film.
9. In an advertisement, creamy ice cream shows a woman eating one of the
company’s ice cream bars. The woman looks just like Sandra Johnson , a pop
singer—but it was not Johnson. Johnson, who didn't give permission to the
ice cream company, sues Creamy. Johnson will
10. To win a private facts lawsuit, the standard a plaintiff must show is the
publication injured the plaintiff’s reputation
11. A radio commercial uses the voice of a singer sounding remarkably like Lilly
Jones singing part of her hit record, "Fainting." The singer is not Jones. To

avoid an appropriation lawsuit for a "sound-alike" problem in the
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12. In general, intrusion can take place if there is a reasonable expectation of