جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « image rights » در نشریات گروه « فقه و حقوق »

The use of images taken by the physician during the treatment and care of the patient can endanger the patient's privacy and image rights and lead to the disclosure of the patient's identity. The right to confidentiality of the patient's image therapy in the legal sphere is included in the category of the right to personality and in the realm of Islamic law is in the category of the sin against mankind. On the other hand, these images provide a unique opportunity for physicians in education and research. Given that based on the rights of persons to their image, no one can take a photo or video without the consent of a person, today, some domestic legal systems have provided the conditions for proper use of patient images to protect patients' rights and prevent possible disputes between physician and patient. Non-disclosure of patient identity, informed consent, and safe maintenance are the three main conditions in using patient images. Due to the necessity of finding the right to privacy of patient medical images, the present study, through a descriptive-analytic method, aims to achieve the principles and criteria of protection of this right for legislation in Iran by reviewing and analyzing the results of scientific theories and legal approaches of international centers such as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the Canadian Medical Protective Association has considered and western countries such as Australia, England, and Canada.

Nowadays, by the increasing positive impact of personality characteristics of celebrities on the attractiveness of goods and services, celebrities found the value of their economic image in commercial advertising, which made the sponsors more willing to conclude license contracts with them. In this area, celebrities’ rights are called “image rights”. The exploitation of celebrities’ image rights is logically in return for payment of costs under contract; however, there is possibility of unauthorized exploitation that cause celebrity to sustain loss and affect her/his economic interests. In some western countries, new institution called “Publicity Rights” has been recognized or the tools of intellectual Property Rights and Civil Liability have been used to protect image rights. In the Iranian legal system, due to insufficient coverage of Intellectual Property Law to this issue, this issue is vague and this may lead to injustice for celebrities. Because the unauthorized use of image rights of celebrities cause them financial and moral loss, which the belief to lack of prevention or lack of relief, is contrary to the general principles of law and morality. Thus, because of the lack of specific protection, to compensate their loss, celebrities can invoke to civil liability and tort law.

Nowadays, images of celebrities are used to advertise goods and services, and this phenomenon is growing. On the one hand, in recent years, celebrities become aware of the value of image and image rights in advertisement world. On the other hand, many agencies and owners of goods and services become aware of the important effect of popularity of celebrities as a tool to boost sales of goods. Therefore, in today’s world, celebrities’ image rights become a valuable asset. There is not a uniform procedure among legal systems in respect of nature of celebritie's image rights. The legal system of the United States has recognized the economic value of image by accepting it as a right of publicity and has been considered it as an economic right. In European countries, France still remains in the framework of right of personality while in legal system of England, image rights is described within right of privacy. By considering the differences in this field, this paper seeks to explain the adopted approaches in legal systems, and analyze the nature of image rights in Iran.