Posts Tagged: international laws

Limiting Public Exposés: China’s Crackdown on Information about Officials and Social Elite

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There is a chilling crackdown on due diligence companies in China. In an effort to tighten access to company records at local industry and commerce bureaus, the Chinese government arrested Peter Humphreys and his wife, who run a due diligence company that works for many multinational companies in China. Access to these bureau records is… Read more »

What do you think?….An Economic Form of Grave Robbing?

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Today the right of publicity clearly allows people to control the commercial use of their names and images during their lives. What happens after death is much murkier. Throughout much of the world, the right of publicity ends at death, after which a person’s identity becomes generally available for public use. In the United States,… Read more »