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Can Screen Shot Use Create Libel?

By Shannon P. Duffy
April 01, 2004

A Philadelphia company is suing the New York Times for libel by claiming that the newspaper harmed its reputation by using an image from the company's Internet site.

Franklin Prescriptions claims that use of its Internet site as a graphic to illustrate the article headlined “A Web Bazaar Turns Into a Pharmaceutical Free for All,” implied that it was guilty of illicit conduct. The company says it never sells drugs online, but that the illustration implied that it does ' even though the company's name was never mentioned in the article.

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