Commercialising Celebrity Persona

Commercialising Celebrity Persona
Author: Emma Perot
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2023-09-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509966102

This book investigates the commercialisation of celebrity persona in the UK, New York, and California. Interviews with 68 practitioners across the advertising, merchandising, film, and video game industries provide insight on the differences in approaches across jurisdictions, as well as the similarities caused by non-legal factors. Furthermore, the book addresses the developments in technology, social media, and social norms that have made collaboration attractive to maintain favour with fans. The book considers how the extension of passing off in the UK to include persona rights impacts the dispute resolution and transactional spheres involved in the commercialisation of persona. It compares the industry landscape to that of the US where the right of publicity has been recognised since 1953 and has gone as far as to protect 'identity'. The book argues that nonlegal factors significantly impact the commercialisation of persona across the jurisdictions and interact with the law to encourage permission-based behaviours. However, there remains a divergence in the dispute resolution sphere. Anyone who is interested in the multi-million dollar business of celebrities as assets will benefit from this book.

Commercialising Celebrity Persona

Commercialising Celebrity Persona
Author: Emma Perot
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2023-09-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509966110

This book investigates the commercialisation of celebrity persona in the UK, New York, and California. Interviews with 68 practitioners across the advertising, merchandising, film, and video game industries provide insight on the differences in approaches across jurisdictions, as well as the similarities caused by non-legal factors. Furthermore, the book addresses the developments in technology, social media, and social norms that have made collaboration attractive to maintain favour with fans. The book considers how the extension of passing off in the UK to include persona rights impacts the dispute resolution and transactional spheres involved in the commercialisation of persona. It compares the industry landscape to that of the US where the right of publicity has been recognised since 1953 and has gone as far as to protect 'identity'. The book argues that nonlegal factors significantly impact the commercialisation of persona across the jurisdictions and interact with the law to encourage permission-based behaviours. However, there remains a divergence in the dispute resolution sphere. Anyone who is interested in the multi-million dollar business of celebrities as assets will benefit from this book.

The Soul of Creativity

The Soul of Creativity
Author: Roberta Kwall
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0804756430

This book explores human creativity to illustrate how the legal system can protect a wide variety of authors from attribution failures and other assaults to the intended messages of their works.

The Commercial Appropriation of Personality

The Commercial Appropriation of Personality
Author: Huw Beverley-Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2002-08-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139433717

Commercial exploitation of attributes of an individual's personality, such as name, voice and likeness, forms a mainstay of modern advertising and marketing. Such indicia also represent an important aspect of an individual's dignity which is often offended by unauthorized commercial appropriation. This volume provides a framework for analysing the disparate aspects of the problem of commercial appropriation of personality and traces, in detail, the discrete patterns of development in the major common law systems. It also considers whether a coherent justification for a remedy may be identified from a range of competing theories. The considerable variation in substantive legal protection reflects more fundamental differences in the law's responsiveness to commercial practices and different attitudes towards the proper scope and limits of intangible property rights.

Trade Marks Retrospective

Trade Marks Retrospective
Author: Norma Dawson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2000
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This collection of papers reveals the policy shifts in the field of trade marks which have taken place during the 20th century. Topics dealt with include: developments in judicial thinking; the perception of brand owners; the UK's obligation under the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property; the registration of foreign-language words as trade marks; the difficulties inherent in registering and protecting three-dimensional shapes as trade marks; and the functions and dysfunctions of trade marks.