Name TAN David |
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Designation Professor |
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Qualifications Ph.D. (Melbourne), LL.M. (Harvard), LL.B. (Hons), B.Com. (Melbourne) |
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Email Address: david.tan@nus.edu.sg | |
Office Tel: (65) 6516-6781 | |
Office Fax: (65) 6779-0979 | |
Office Address Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore Eu Tong Sen Building 469G Bukit Timah Road Singapore 259776 |
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Research Interests Entertainment Law Copyright Trademarks Right of Publicity Right of Privacy/Breach of Confidence Cultural Studies Freedom of Speech Tort Law |
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Subjects Taught Entertainment Law: Pop Iconography and Celebrity (LL4177V) Freedom of Speech: Critical and Comparative Perspectives (LL4190V) Privacy & Data Protection Law (LL4350V) Law of Torts (LC1004) |
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Brief Biodata |
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Representative Publications 1. The Commercial Appropriation of Fame: A Cultural Analysis of the Right of Publicity and Passing Off (Cambridge University Press, April 2017) 2. 'The Lost Language of the First Amendment in Copyright Fair Use: A Semiotic Perspective of the "Transformative Use" Doctrine Twenty-Five Years On' (2016) 26 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 311 3. 'Beyond Trademark Law: What the Right of Publicity Can Learn from Cultural Studies' (2008) 25 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 913 4. 'The Reynolds Privilege in a Neo-Confucianist Communitarian Democracy: Reinvigorating Freedom of Political Communication in Singapore' [2011] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 456 5. 'A Sufficiently Close Relationship Akin to Employment' (2013) 129 Law Quarterly Review 30 6. 'Debunking a Myth: A Rejection of the "Assumption of Responsibility" Test for Duty of Care' (2014) 22 Torts Law Journal 183 7. 'The Promise of Universality: The Spandeck Formulation Half A Decade On' (2013) 25 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 510 (co-author Goh Yihan) 8. 'Towards a New Regime for the Protection of Outer Space as the Province of All Mankind' (2000) 25 Yale Journal of International Law 145 |
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