Can trade mark law help protect one’s privacy (and stop the spread of embarrassing WhatsApp audio messages)?

Italian actor Raoul BovaThe use – and abuse – of IP rights to achieve objectives other than protecting what those rights were originally meant to do is not new. In all of this, however, the interplay between IP and privacy protection is arguably an emerging and still underexplored area.A story that brings together one of the most popular Italian actors, gossip, privacy protection, and trade mark