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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792429303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-107-20488-7

1-282-53600-1

9786612536007

0-511-67826-6

0-511-68149-6

0-511-67700-6

0-511-68347-2

0-511-67616-6

0-511-67951-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 591 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

The common core of European private law

Disciplina

346.2403/3

Soggetti

Personality (Law) - Europe

Privacy, Right of - Europe

Torts - Europe

Personality (Law) - United States

Privacy, Right of - United States

Torts - United States

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 contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.