Legal Opinion
Messenger v. Gruner + Jahr Printing & Publishing
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 17, 2000PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
Plaintiff, a 14-year-old aspiring Florida model, posed for a series of photographs in New York to appear in Young and Modern (YM), a magazine for teenage girls published by defendant Gruner + Jahr Printing. Plaintiff consented to the photo shoot, but YM did not obtain written consent from her parent or legal guardian. YM used the photos to illustrate the “Love Crisis” column in its June/July 1995 issue.
The column began with a letter to Sally Lee, YM’s editor-in-chief, from a 14-year-old girl identified only as “Mortified.” Mortified writes that she got drunk at a party and…
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