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List of contents
Preface; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Part I. A Framework: 1. The problem of appropriation of personality; Part II. Economic Interests and the Law of Unfair Competition: 2. Introduction; 3. Statutory and extra-legal remedies; 4. Goodwill in personality: the tort of passing off in English and Australian law; 5. Unfair competition and the doctrine of misappropriation; Part III. Dignitary Interests: 6. Introduction; 7. Privacy and publicity in the United States; 8. Privacy interests in English law; 9. Interests in reputation; Part IV. Pervasive Problems: 10. Property in personality; 11. Justifying a remedy for appropriation of personality; Part V. Conclusions: 12. The autonomy of appropriation of personality; Bibliography; Index.
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.
Summary
Beverley-Smith provides analyses of the disparate aspects of commercial appropriation of personality and traces, in detail, the discrete patterns of development in the major common law systems. He also considers whether a coherent justification for a remedy may be identified from a range of competing theories.
