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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.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   Sport/media/brands lawyer? Handle converging tech issues?, 17 Feb 2006 By  "fidelio119" - See all my reviews If you're one of the above, this is I would suggest a pretty key reference material. I thought the combination of three jurisdictions was perhaps a little unusual, but in covering England, France and Germany the authors have ensured that when you're advising on those big European ad campaigns you have the main ones covered. Perhaps not having a practising background in the two mainland Euro jurisdictions made reading those chapters heavier going for me, however there is no doubt that the English and other common law jurisdictions sections cover the law with good detail and analysis. In fact, I haven't seen these areas of law (privacy, unfair competition and miscellaneous IPR) covered under the same umbrella in this way previously.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews

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