Case Law

No right to payment for educator who allegedly shared the idea with Wozniak. Tech entrepreneur and personal computing pioneer Steve Wozniak will not have to compensate a business school professor who…

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the second trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, every three months we update you on what has happened in EU copyright law…

In the case at hand there was a conflict due to the use of a work of art in the famous Spanish television programme “El Hormiguero” without the corresponding authorisation of the author. The work was…

  Attributed to Daniele da Volterra, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons On 20 April 2023, the Italian Civil Court of first instance of Florence (Tribunale civile di Firenze) issued a decision that…

 On 20 April 2023 in the joined cases Blue Air ( C-775/21) and  SNTFC (C-826/21) the CJEU pronounced once again on the infringement of the right of communication to the public, making a further…

In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court held that the appellant had not justified compelling interest in the appeal and, therefore, ruled the extraordinary cassation and breach of process appeals…

  “Warhol Print” (Vanity Fair), Page 8, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, 11 F.4th 26 (2d Cir. 2021) (available here); “Warhol Print” also available here   “Goldsmith…

Another court of appeals concludes that the statute of limitations doctrine was not overturned by a Supreme Court laches decision. The Supreme Court did not upend the longstanding discovery rule…

This case concerns a conflict between the fundamental right to one's own likeness and the exceptions to unlawful interference with the right to one's own likeness. The Supreme Court gives prevalence…