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40 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 141 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/hascom40 and id is 1 raw text is: From Satirical to Satyrical: When Is a Joke Actionable? by SANDRA DAVIDSON SCOTT* Table of Contents I. Pring and Falwell ......................................... 143 A. Pring in Penthouse: Not an Uplifting Experience ...... 143 B. Falwell: From the Outhouse to the Courthouse ....... 145 II. Public Figures and Private Persons ........................ 148 A. A Thrust into the Vortex: Who Is a Public Figure? .............................................. 148 B. Is Pring a Private Person, or Does it Matter? .......... 154 III. A ppropriation ............................................ 159 A. The Public Figure Advantage: Commercial Appropria- tion of Name and Likeness ........................... 159 B. Limits to Appropriation: Strictly Commercial Purpose and Opinions on Newsworthy Topics .................. 163 IV. Commercial and Personal Interests ........................ 166 A. Is the Law on Satirical Expression of Opinions Fair? .. 166 B. False Facts: An Oxymoron and a Hazard .......... 169 C. The Requirement of Literal Truth: An Invitation to Stretch Facts? ........................................ 174 V . Conclusion ............................................... 176 * Assistant Professor, University of Missouri School of Journalism; B.A., University of Missouri, Columbia, 1968; M.A., University of Missouri, Columbia, 1973; Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1977; J.D., University of Missouri, Columbia, 1982. The author teaches communications law and serves as Legal Counsel for the newspaper produced at the school. She would like to thank Byron Scott, Professor of Journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, David Fischer, Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law, Lee Jollife, Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and Nancy Waters, Research Assistant, for their help in writing this Article.