Intellectual property, unfair competition and publicity : convergences and development /

Other Authors: Kur, Annette, Ohly, Ansgar
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, c2014.
Series:European Intellectual Property Institutes Network series
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Table of Contents:
  • What to protect, and how? unfair competition, intellectual property, or protection sui generis / Annette Kur
  • Interfaces between trade mark protection and unfair competition law - confusion about confusion and misconceptions about misappropriation? / Ansgar Ohly
  • Personality rights, unfair competition and extended causes of action / Guido Westkamp
  • Personality endorsement and character merchandising : a sparkle of unfair competition in English law / Spyros Maniatis
  • Rights of publicity in the United States from Edison to Elvis to Paris (and every 15 minutes in between) / Gary Rinkerman
  • Celebrities, advertisement and commercial exploitation 'publicity rights' in German law / Kerstin Schmitt
  • Ambush marketing : examining the development of an event organizer right of association / Seth Ericsson
  • Commercialising privacy and privatising the commercial : the difficulties arising from the protection of privacy via breach of confidence / Tanya Aplin
  • Protection of the first mover advantage - regulation against imitation of the product configuration in Japan / Yoshiyuki Tamura
  • The use of trade marks in keyword advertising : developments in CJEU and national jurisprudence / Nicole van der Laan
  • The United Kingdom's public interest 'defence' and European Union copyright law / Jonathan Griffiths
  • Public domain at the interface of trade mark and unfair competition law - the case of referential use of trade marks / Nari Lee
  • Image rights in civil law systems : four questions and three systems / Antoon Quaedvlieg.