‘Revenge porn: … still no IP rights in sight’

“Revenge porn is sometimes mentioned in textbooks and commentary as the typical case of private production gone wrong, for which IP rights would prove useful not so much for incentivising the commercial dissemination of the ‘work’ but, rather, for its taking down. Such a scenario would certainly make for an interesting IP case, testing the application of copyright or performers’ rights, or at least serve as the basis of a cheeky examination question, no pun intended …” (more)

[Mathilde Pavis, The IPKat, 4 December]

First posted 2018-12-04 15:42:34

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