A Study On The Legal Issues Of The Right To Privacy Of Public Figure

Privacy is an important civil rights,the core value is to protect the dignity and freedom of personality is inviolable.With the rising awareness of civil rights,as an important part of personality right of privacy,the social attention and the protection degree showing a significant expansion.But with the development of modern science and technology,the acquisition and dissemination of information becomes particularly fast and convenient,and can be copied is extremely strong,once spread will cause irreparable great impact.As a special group in the social division of public figures,due to their occupation characteristics,every act and every move are very likely to attract public attention and interest,some of the media to cater to the needs of the people,expand the influence and sales,is also keen to tap the personal lives of famous people.Such as the United States media leader Murdoch said,if you want to expand the sales of newspapers,the taste can be reduced.So often expose to the risk to participate in social activities in the spotlight of the public figures facing privacy more.From the "Oriental Sports Daily reported on Fan Zhiyi events to the media of the film star Wen Zhang derailment reported,this kind of example is meet the eye everywhere.In the United States,Germany and other countries,the right of privacy has been established as an independent personality right to protect,the privacy of public figures also enacted laws or judicial precedents to clear the scope of protection and the principle of protection.Since October 1,2017,our country will implement The General Principles of Civil Law People's Republic of China,is the first clear in natural person's civil rights include the right of privacy,which is regarded as a milepost of privacy in our country's development.However,due to the restriction of traditional idea and social reality,now for the protection of citizen privacy is not in place,especially public figures privacy related theoretical research and judicial practice there are many problems,it is difficult to be protected.For example,reflected in the privacy of public figures all promulgated the implementation of laws and regulations are no relevant provisions.This naturally leads to the judicial practice,public figures can not find the corresponding provisions of the legal proceedings in order to protect their own interests has indeed suffered damage;This kind of cases even enter the judicial process,standards are often different judgments in court,the same case different trial results,seriously affected the seriousness of the law.According to the current concept of public figures is not clear,the scope and limitations of different types of public figures,the principle of the protection is not clear,the legislation lags behind,In this paper,the privacy of public figures as the research object,based on the public figures and the privacy of public figures such as the definition,and analyze the outstanding foreign legislative experience on the status quo of the protection of domestic legislation,combined with China's judicial practice,put forward the feasible legislative suggestions.Such as the establishment of public figures for the classification and classification of different protection system,try to enrich and improve our existing laws and regulations,judicial practice,the importance of guiding the role of the case.