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Showing posts with label property; property law; reputation; property in the human body; John Locke; Tim Wilson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label property; property law; reputation; property in the human body; John Locke; Tim Wilson. Show all posts

Friday, 20 December 2013

There's no property in reputation


In a Sydney Morning Herald piece yesterday, the new Freedom Commissioner Tim Wilson claimed that reputation was 'essentially a property right'.

With the greatest respect, this is not correct as a matter of law.