Ansgar Ohly

Huw Beverley-Smith

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. 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.

Civil Law Perspectives on Commercial Appropriation

Privacy, Property and Personality

Sarah Turner

Ali Jazairy

Jérôme Passa

Ralph Schlosser

Jacques de Werra

La protection des secrets d'affaires / The protection of trade secrets

Annette Kur

Nari Lee

Guido Westkamp

Dealing with rights and developments at the margin of classic intellectual property, this fascinating book explores emerging types of regulations and how existing IP regimes inform and influence the judicial and legislative creation of "substitute" IP rights.

Convergences and Development

Intellectual Property, Unfair Competition and Publicity

Graeme B. Dinwoodie

Marianne Levin

Niklas Bruun

This volume is for students and scholars of intellectual property law, practitioners seeking creative arguments from across the field, and policymakers searching for solutions to changing social and technological issues. The book explores the tensions between two fundamentally competing demands made of IP law.

Essays in Honour of Annette Kur

Transition and Coherence in Intellectual Property Law

Diethelm Klippel

English summary: The contributions to this volume analyze the delicate balance between the need for effective protection of intellectual property rights and the public interest in access to information and in free competition. From the perspective of constitutional law, economic theory, patent law, copyright law, trade mark law and competition law, the authors investigate whether the currently existing system of national, European and international intellectual property law adequately balances rights owners' interests and the public interest in a general access to information. German description: Dieser Band enthalt die Vortrage, die auf dem Eroffnungssymposium des Bayreuther DFG-Graduiertenkollegs Geistiges Eigentum und Gemeinfreiheit im Mai 2006 gehalten wurden. Die Autoren befassen sich aus verfassungsrechtlicher, okonomischer und zivilrechtlicher Perspektive mit dem Spannungsverhaltnis, das zwischen dem Interesse von Erfindern und Kreativen am effektiven Schutz ihres geistigen Eigentums und den Zugangsinteressen der Allgemeinheit besteht. Nach einer Einfuhrung, die wesentliche Gedanken des Symposiums zusammenfasst und in die aktuelle Diskussion einordnet, werden okonomische und verfassungsrechtliche Grundlagen untersucht. Uberlegt wird, ob das heutige Urheberrechtssystem noch zeitgemass ist und welche Perspektiven sich im europaischen Patentrecht abzeichnen. Das Verhaltnis zwischen Marken- und Lauterkeitsrecht bestimmen zwei Beitrage mit unterschiedlichen Akzenten. Inwieweit das internationale Recht des geistigen Eigentums einer Erganzung durch ein internationales Kartellrecht bedarf, wird abschliessend erortert.

Geistiges Eigentum und Gemeinfreiheit

Dealing with rights and developments at the margin of classic intellectual property, this fascinating book explores emerging types of regulations and how existing IP regimes inform and influence the judicial and legislative creation of _substitute‘ IP

Ansgar Ohly

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