Fordham Urban Law Journal Volume 31 | Number 6 Article 3 2004 Are Talebearers Really as Bad as Talemakers?: Rethinking Republisher Liability in an Information Age Jennifer L. Del Medico Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj Part of the Torts Commons Recommended Citation Jennifer L. Del Medico, Are Talebearers Really as Bad as Talemakers?: Rethinking Republisher Liability in an Information Age , 31 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1409 (2004). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol31/iss6/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Urban Law Journal by an authorized editor of FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Are Talebearers Really as Bad as Talemakers?: Rethinking Republisher Liability in an Information Age Cover Page Footnote J.D. candidate, Fordham University School of Law, 2005; B.S.J., Northwestern University, 1999. Thanks to Professor Mary-Rose Papandrea and my former employer, The tS ar-Ledger, for inspiration. I would also like to thank James D. Hyre his help in preparing this piece for publication. This Comment is the winner of the first annual Fordham Urban Law Journal Alumni Association Student Author Award. This article is available in Fordham Urban Law Journal: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol31/iss6/3 ARE TALEBEARERS REALLY AS BAD AS TALEMAKERS?: RETHINKING REPUBLISHER LIABILITY IN AN INFORMATION AGE Jennifer L. Del Medico* INTRODUCTION It was a spectacle that "produced without question some of the most bizarre testimony," a district court judge commented in hind- sight.' The 1982 Pulitzer divorce trial featured tales of sex, drugs, and s6ances that were splashed throughout magazines and newspa- pers across the country.2 Many of the scandalous details involved Janice Nelson, the woman who served as Mrs.