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Bruce Lee’s Case: Intellectual Property vs. Free Access to Culture and Protection of Public Interest

Dr Magdalena Łągiewska, prof. dr hab. Kamil Zeidler

University of Gdańsk

English abstract: This article provides a comprehensive analysis of Bruce Lee’s case by presenting the intellectual property rights mechanisms in the People’s Republic of China. The aim of this paper is to bring attention to the trademark law as well as to shed new light on infringements of personality rights, in particular portrait rights, in trademarks. This begs the question as to what kind of legal action should be undertaken by Bruce Lee’s heiress to protect her rights. Moreover, the article touches upon the conflict between the public interest and trademarks and tries to answer the question how to balance private holders’ rights with the public interest. In order to provide some hypothetical scenarios, the study focuses primarily on Bruce Lee’s case background and the new amendments to trademark law in China, bringing the authors to final deliberations on Bruce Lee as part of modern culture belonging to mankind as a whole. Therefore, our research aims to find a solution to the challenging problem of reconciling intellectual property rights protection mechanisms with the common cultural heritage.

Keywords: Bruce Lee’s case, intellectual property infringement, trademark law, Chinese law, public interest, cultural heritage

Language: English

Published: Number 3(24)/2020, pp. 79-92.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2020.3.79

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Libertarianism, Jusnaturalist Skepticism, and the Argument from the Legitimate Use of Force

prof. UMK dr hab. Łukasz Dominiak

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

English abstract: The article analyses the argument from the justified use of force, put forward against jusnaturalist skepticism by Stephan Kinsella. This argument is intended to show that skepticism about natural rights has become entangled in a performative contradiction, because in order to prove that no natural rights exist, it must assume the existence of such rights. The defeat of jusnaturalist skepticism, in turn, is to prove apagogically the existence of natural rights, including the libertarian private property rights. The article shows, using Hohfeld’s analysis method, that the anti-skeptical argument from the justified use of force does not achieve its goals.

Keywords: libertarianism, jusnaturalism, skepticism, natural rights, Hohfeld, Kinsella

Language: Polish

Published: nr 3(40)/2024, pp. 5-15.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2024.3.5

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Issue 1(34)/2023 „Archiwum…” is available

We invite you to read the latest issue of „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej”. The issue includes the following texts:

Prof. UMK dr hab. Marta BARANOWSKA: Liberty – Equality – Fraternity, or Rudolf Steiner’s Concept of Threefold Society
Mgr Bartosz BISKUP: Open texture of law and evolution of legal institutions. The case of marriage
Dr Karolina GMEREK: ‘Tacit’ Declarations of Intent: Considerations in the Context of the Normative Concept of Omission
Dr Paweł LESIŃSKI: Private Property and Its Social Dimension in the Views of Rudolf von Jhering and Otto von Gierke
Dr Marek SUSKA: Terminological Consistency in the Legal System. A View at the Problem of Interpretation from the Perspective of Law-making Practice
Mgr Jan TURLEJ: Contemporary Debate on John Rawls’s Political Concept of Human Rights. Selected Arguments and Positions
Dr Mariola ŻAK: Institutional Critique as a Research Perspective of Jurisprudence in the Context of Jacques Rancière’s Philosophy
Prof. KUL dr hab. Jadwiga POTRZESZCZ: Magdalena Najda, Aleksandra Rutkowska, Dariusz Rutkowski, Courtroom Psychology. How communication and emotions affect on the perception of justice, Bielsko-Biala 2021. A Review

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