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

Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law

by Huw Beverley-Smith, Ansgar Ohly, Agnes Lucas-Schloetter

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.

284 pages, Hardcover

First published November 24, 2005