Using original and archival material, The Right to Privacy traces the origins and influence of the right to privacy as a social, cultural and legal idea. Richardson argues that this right had emerged as an important legal concept across a number of jurisdictions by the end of the nineteenth century, providing a basis for its recognition as a universal human right in later centuries. This book is a unique contribution to the history of the modern right to privacy. It covers the transition from Georgian to Victorian England, developments in Second Empire France, insights in the lead up to the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) of 1896, and the experience of a rapidly modernising America around the turn of the twentieth century. It will appeal to an audience of academic and postgraduate researchers, as well as to the judiciary and legal practice.
Author(s): Megan Richardson
Series: Cambridge Intellectual Property And Information Law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 188
Tags: Authorship: History, Copyright: History, Intellectual Property: History, Privacy, Right Of, Law: Intellectual Property: General
Cover
......Page 1
Half-title page......Page 3
Series page......Page 4
Title page......Page 5
Copyright page......Page 6
Epigraph
......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
List of
Illustrations......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 15
1 Authorship, Secrecy, Privacy......Page 28
2 Creative Self-fashioning......Page 52
3 Intimate Images......Page 76
4 Resisting Spectacle......Page 100
5 Make It New!......Page 126
Appendix: Documentation......Page 143
Southey v Sherwood
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Gee v Pritchard
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Wyatt v Wilson
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Prince Albert v Strange and Jasper Thomsett Judge and Her Majesty’s Attorney General
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Félix c O’Connell
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Dumas c Liébert
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Bonnet c Société Olibet
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Peltzer c Castan
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Reichsgericht vom 29 November 1898
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Reichsgericht vom 28 Dezember 1899
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‘Property in One’s Own Person’, New York Law Journal
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‘Post Mortem Publicity’, New York Law Journal
......Page 181
Index......Page 183
