Oklahoma

Oklahoma recognizes the four privacy torts. A statute makes misappropriation a misdemeanor. Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 839. See also Okla. Stat. tit. 12, §§ 1448, 1449 (right of publicity).

False light: A man whose photograph was published and wrongly identified as that of a convicted murderer could not recover from the newspaper on a false light claim because he did not prove actual malice on the part of the newspaper. Colbert v. World Publishing Co., 747 P.2d 286 (Okla. 1987).