Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co.

The complaint in this case claimed that “the defendant showed and commercialized the film of * * * [plaintiff’s] act without his consent and such conduct by the defendant was unlawful appropriation of plaintiff’s professional property.” Appropriation is a well-recognized branch of the more general tort of interference with the right of privacy. In Housh v. Peth (1956), 165 Ohio St. 35, *226133 N. E. 2d 340, this court affirmed the principle that each individual has a legally protected' right of privacy. In paragraph two of the syllabus of that case, the court held that:

“An actionable invasion…