Privacy, property and personality
Subtitle: civil law perspectives on commercial appropriation
By: Huw Beverley-Smith, Ansgar Ohly, Agnès Lucas-Schloetter.
Contributors: Ohly, Ansgar.; Lucas-Schloetter, Agnès.
Series: Cambridge studies in intellectual property rights
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Personality (Law); Intellectual property.
Description: "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"--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index.