RIGHT OF PRIVACY-STATUS OF THE LAW IN MICHIGAN-LIABILITY FOR COMMERCIAL USE OF PHOTOGRAPH

Defendant published plaintiff's photograph in connection with a cosmetics advertisement in a Detroit newspaper. Plaintiff sought damages, alleging that she neither knew of nor assented to the publication of the photograph, that the publication constituted an invasion of her right to be free from offensive publicity, and that she had suffered consequential damages. The trial court sustained defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that the complaint stated no cause of action. On appeal, held, reversed and remanded.

Plaintiff stated a cause of action for invasion of her right of privacy. Pallas v. Crowley, Milner & Co., 322 Mich. 411, 33 N.W. (2d) 911 (1948).