Privacy, Property and Personality: Civil Law Perspectives on Commercial Appropriation

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.

Author: Huw Beverley-Smith, Ansgar Ohly, Agnes Lucas-Schloetter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/24/2005
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.34h x 8.26w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521820806

About the Author
Beverley-Smith, Huw: - Huw Beverley-Smith is a Solicitor in the Intellectual Property and Technology Department at Field Fischer Waterhouse in London. he is also the author of The Commercial Appropriation of personality (Cambridge 2002).Ohly, Ansgar: - Ansgar Ohly is Professor of Civil Law and Intellectual Property Law at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Until 2002 he was the lead of the Commonwealth Department of the Max-Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich.Lucas-Schloetter, Agnes: - Agnès Lucas-Schloetter is Lecturer in French law at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Until 2003 she was a researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich.