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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790272403321

Titolo

The law of reputation and brands in the Asia Pacific / / edited by Andrew T. Kenyon, Ng-Loy Wee Loon and Megan Richardson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-33441-7

1-107-23076-4

1-139-08460-7

1-280-39415-3

1-139-33785-8

9786613572073

1-139-34030-1

1-139-34188-X

1-139-33698-3

1-139-33872-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge intellectual property and information law ; ; 16

Disciplina

346.04/8

Soggetti

Brand name products - Law and legislation - Asia

Brand name products - Law and legislation - Pacific Area

Reputation (Law)

Libel and slander

Names, Personal - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is the value of a brand to a firm? / Don O'Sullivan, Kwanghui Lim, and Janice Luck -- The social benefits and costs of trade marks and brands / Christine Greenhalgh -- Legal and cultural approaches to the protection of the contemporary celebrity brand in the Asia Pacific region / David Tan -- No personality rights for pop stars in Hong Kong? / Peter K. Yu -- Fashioning personality rights in Australia / Megan Richardson and Andrew T. Kenyon -- Protection of reputation in the trade mark and copyright laws of Malaysia and Singapore :



divergence and a cultural exploration / Khaw Lake Tee, Tay Pek San, and Ng-Loy Wee Loon -- Reproduction rights in US trade mark law / Graeme W. Austin -- From magic charms to symbols of wealth : well-known trade marks in Indonesia / Christoph Antons -- Names as brands : moral rights and the 'unreasonable' pseudonym in Australia / Elizabeth Adeney -- The use of survey evidence in Australian trade mark and passing off cases / Vicki Huang, Kimberlee Weatherall, and Elizabeth Webster -- The place of expert evidence in unfair competition cases : the Australian experience / Sam Ricketson -- Geographical indications : Europe's strange chimera or developing countries' champion? / Melissa de Zwart -- Branding traditional peoples' traditional knowledge / Susy Frankel.

Sommario/riassunto

Efforts to expand the scope of legal protection given to reputation and brands in the Asia Pacific region have led to considerable controversy. Written by a variety of experts, the essays in this book consider the developing law of reputation and brands in a fraught area.