If I am the Author of my Online Persona, How can I protect it?
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Virtual worlds were once thought to be the future of e-commerce. Avatars in virtual worlds embodied your identity and were your trademark. Facebook has created a program called DeepFace which can pick a face out of crowd with close to human accuracy. Your face is your identity, can it be trademarked? Trademarks, more than other species of intellectual property, are one step further from tangible property. Every kind of intellectual property requires participants to acquire value. What makes trademarks different is that they require participants to acquire meaning. This article deals with the complex problem of creating intangible property interests in symbolic systems and online persona and whether a better means of protection would be image rights.