to be important for media economics as it related to well-known people, and what
restrictions were appropriate for news outlets when reporting on their private lives.
The earliest theory of privacy in US legal history was written on account of the media:
Warren and Brandeis (1890) wrote their theory of privacy in response to changes in jour-
nalistic practices. They were prompted both by the growth of the popular media and by
the advent of small portable cameras, and the fear that they could prove to be an intrusive
technology if used by journalists to document the lives of the famous:
Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of pri-
vate and domestic life; and numerous mechanical devices threaten to make ...