Right to Privacy - Origins and Influence of a Nineteenth-Century Idea

This book traces the origins and influence of the right to privacy as a social, cultural and ultimately legal idea.

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Authorship, secrecy, privacy; 2. Creative self-fashioning; 3. Intimate images; 4. Resisting spectacle; 5. Make it new!; Appendix: documentation; Index.

About the author

Megan Richardson is a Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Her fields of research and publication include privacy and personality rights, law reform and legal theory. She is Joint Director of the Melbourne Law School's Centre for Media and Communications Law (CMCL) and Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA).

Summary

With the inclusion of original and archival material, this book is a unique contribution to the history of the modern right to privacy. This book will appeal to an audience of academic and postgraduate researchers, as well as to the judiciary and legal practice.

Product details

• Authors: Megan Richardson, Megan (University of Melbourne) Richardson, Richardson Megan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781108419697
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41969-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Cambridge Intellectual Propert; Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law; Cambridge Intellectual Propert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Intellectual Property / General, Legal History, comparative law, intellectual property law