Commercial exploitation of attributes of an individual’s personality (name, voice and likeness) is characteristic of modern advertising and marketing. This volume provides a framework for analyzing the disparate aspects of the commercial appropriation of personality and traces its discrete patterns in the major common law systems. It considers whether a coherent justification for a remedy may be identified from a range of competing theories.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘The book is useful for any student of the law, for academics and judges, as well as for practitioners, including the generalist or even the specialist in another field. Its value lies beyond the insight it provides into this interesting, specialist, developing area of the law. It is a blueprint for the study of any area of common law that is being radically adapted and developed to meet new technological, economic and cultural changes.’ Entertainment Law Review
Book Description
An analysis of the problem of commercial appropriation and the case for a remedy.
About the Author
Huw Beverley-Smith was formerly Lecturer in Law in the Department of Law, University of Wales, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich.
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