PUBLICITY RIGHT: THE EMERGENCE OF PRIVACY LAW IN MALAYSIA

• Main Author: Nik Salida Suhaila Nik Saleh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia 2016
• Subjects: Publicity right; Emergence; Privacy law; Malaysia
• Online Access: http://ddms.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/9977

publicity rights have developed out of common law concepts of property, trespass and intentional tort. Thus publicity rights are, generally speaking, judge-made law, though there are jurisdictions where some aspects of publicity rights are statutory. In some jurisdictions, publicity rights and priv...