Appropriation Requires Name Or Photo
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
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Example wrong choices
20598_write_it_on_your_heart · TORTS · Choice ANo, because the ad portrayed the guide character in a respectful and admiring way.
Why it's attractive
A student picks this because flattering use feels harmless. The breaker is that the call turns on unauthorized commercial identity use, not insult.
Why it's wrong
Respectful tone feels harmless, but the call asks commercial identity use.
Spot it next time
Ask whether the answer uses a legal trigger or only a tone judgment.
20598_write_it_on_your_heart · TORTS · Choice CYes, but only if the ad stated a false fact about Ruth.
Why it's attractive
A student picks this because false statements feel like the familiar reputation-tort path. The breaker is that this is an identity-use call, and the Gold Key makes false-fact language a neighbor-frame trap.
Why it's wrong
False fact is a neighbor-frame answer, not the appropriation call.
Spot it next time
Name the call: appropriation. Then remove false-statement conditions unless the call asks for a reputation tort.
20598_write_it_on_your_heart · TORTS · Choice DNo, because the ad did not use Ruth’s exact name or photograph.
Why it's attractive
A student picks this because exact name or photo feels like the safest proof of identity use. The breaker is that the Gold Key says recognizable commercial evocation can be enough.
Why it's wrong
Exact name/photo is an added requirement defeated by the Gold Key.
Spot it next time
Use the identity-evocation Gold Key: recognizable commercial imitation can be enough.
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