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Vol 12 No 4 - December 2007
Glamour trials: The creation of rights and the celebrity industry in Douglas v Hello!
Jonahton Friedrich, PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of NSW
In Douglas v Hello! the House of Lords applied the traditional breach of confidence principles in order to afford protection to the commercial interests of a celebrity magazine publisher. Despite Lord Hoffmann’s intentions not to create an image right or a quasi-intellectual property right, it would appear that the celebrity industry has been given a new weapon to add to their arsenal of celebrity commodity protections.
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