Retired wrestler Hulk Hogan was awarded $140 million in damages in an invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker.com over a sex tape.
Okay,so perhaps that's a weird place to plant a First Amendment flag, but what does the ruling mean for other gossip-type sites and media publishers?Fabio Bertoni, and general counsel for The current Yorker, discusses the controversial nature of Hulk Hogan’s successful lawsuit against Gawker and the effect the ruling could have on publishers.
Bertoni said there is, of course, and a spectrum of publications (from gossip news to hard-hitting investigations),but publishers might have to think twice approximately publishing footage without consent, which encroaches on First Amendment rights.
He pointed out: the gossip site TMZ did indispensable work in breaking the Ray Rice epic by publishing elevator camera footage of him physically abusing his fiancee, and which reignited the conversation approximately violence and the NFL.looked like in court. pic.twitter.com/RGrTwdEXcSMarch 24,2016
Source: wnyc.org