Woods v. Prestwick House, Inc.

WATT, J.:

1 1 Title 12 00.98.2001 § 1449 1 protects individuals from the unauthorized use of the person's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness. Two first impression questions are presented. The first involves the statute of limitations controlling the cause.

T2 To be governed by the three-year statute of limitations for Habilities created by statute, the lability must be one that does not exist but for the statutory provision. 2 We adopted the concept of misappropriation of another's name or likeness as the tort of invasion of privacy long before the Legislature's enactment of 12…