0886 REVIEW DENIED The privilege to publish information about newsworthy events and matters of public interest, and the resulting immunity from liability for misappropriation of identity, applies to profit-making publications; a newspaper has a constitutional right to promote itself by reproducing and distributing its articles and photographs that were originally protected by the privilege.CitationMONTANA v SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS (Montana Poster) 34 CA4 790 [See: Roberson v Rochester 171 NY 538; CivC 3444; Dora v Frontline 15 CA4 536, T/AT 7/93]
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