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Personality rights in European tort law / edited by Gert Brüggemeier, Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi and Patrick O'Callaghan.

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Book
Contributor:
Ciacchi, Aurelia Colombi, editor.
Brüggemeier, Gert, 1944- editor.
O'Callaghan, Patrick, editor.
Series:
Common core of European private law
The common core of European private law
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Personality (Law)--Europe.
Personality (Law).
Privacy, Right of--Europe.
Privacy, Right of.
Europe.
Torts--Europe.
Torts.
Personality (Law)--United States.
Privacy, Right of--United States.
United States.
Torts--United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxviii, 591 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Place of Publication:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
System Details:
text file
PDF
Summary:
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of civil liability for invasion of personality interests in Europe. It is the final product of the collaboration of twenty-seven scholars and includes case studies of fourteen European jurisdictions, as well as an introductory chapter written from a US perspective. The case studies focus in particular on the legal protection of honour and reputation, privacy, self-determination and image. This volume aims to detect hidden similarities (the 'common core') in the actual legal treatment accorded by different European countries to personal interests which in some of these countries qualify as 'personality rights', and also to detect hidden disparities in the 'law in action' of countries whose 'law in the books' seem to protect one and the same personality interest in the same way.
Contents:
General introduction
Protection of personality rights in the law of delict/torts in Europe : mapping out paradigms / Gert Brüggemeier
American tort law and the right to privacy / Joseph A. Page
Case 1 : The corrupt politician
Case 2 : Convicted law professor
Case 3 : The paedophile case
Case 4 : An invented life story
Case 5 : A former statesman's family life
Case 6 : A satirical magazine
Case 7 : A snapshot of a person
Case 8 : A paparazzo's telephoto lens
Case 9 : Naked. Little. Girl.Com
Case 10 : The late famous tennis player
Case 11 : The popular TV presenter
Case 12 : Copied emails
Case 13 : Brigitte's diaries
Case 14 : Tape recordings of a committee meeting
Case 15 : 'Light cigarettes reduce the risk of cancer'
Case 16 : Doctor's non-disclosure of a foetal disease
Case 17 : WAF : a gang of incompetents?
A common core of personality protection / Gert Brüggemeier, Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi and Patrick O'Callaghan.
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ISBN:
9780511676161
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