Privacy, property and personality : civil law perspectives on commercial appropriation

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Privacy, property and personality : civil law perspectives on commercial appropriation

Huw Beverley-Smith, Ansgar Ohly, Agnès Lucas-Schloetter

(Cambridge studies in intellectual property rights)

Cambridge University Press, c2005

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Description

The protection of privacy and personality is one of the most fascinating issues confronting any legal system. This book provides a detailed comparative analysis of the laws relating to commercial exploitation of personality in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. It examines the difficulties in reconciling privacy and personality with intellectual property rights in an individual's identity and in balancing such rights with the competing interests of freedom of expression and freedom of competition. This analysis will be useful for lawyers in legal systems which have yet to develop a sophisticated level of protection for interests in personality. Equally, lawyers in systems which provide a higher level of protection will benefit from the comparative insights into determining the nature and scope of intellectual property rights in personality, particularly questions relating to assignment, licensing, and post-mortem protection.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Table of cases
  • Table of statutes
  • Table of abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Property, personality and unfair competition in England and Wales, Australia and Canada
  • 3. Privacy and personality in the common law systems
  • 4. German law
  • 5. French law
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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  • NCID
    BA75424738
  • ISBN
    • 0521820804
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxxvii, 245 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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