These are exciting times for lawyers who practice in the area of personality rights – whether they are seeking to protect or contain them. And here, for these exciting times, is an excitingly dressed up book, with colourful photographic images on its cover, branded by the publishers a ‘Special Report’.

It begins in a fairly formal, scholarly style. Then, once he gets going, the author gets into campaigning mode. But readers of this review should not think that the book is a diatribe. The author may be partial, but he is eager to show both sides of the various arguments.