Publicity and image rights

Publicity and image rights

In Canada, personality rights enjoy commonlaw and statutory protection, stemmingfrom an individual’s publicity rights (whichare proprietary in nature) and the right toprivacy (a personal interest). In terms ofcommon law protection, the tort ofmisappropriation of personality is availableto individuals (outside Quebec) who havesuffered economic injury as a result of theviolation of their publicity rights.

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