On 21 May 2015, the IP specialist chamber of the High Court of First Instance of Paris handed down one of its worst rulings in copyright law: in breach of the most basic EU and French copyright law…
A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law and the case has been discussed on the Kluwer Copyright Blog here.
In this judgment, the Spanish Supreme Court ruled on the concept of…
The Spanish Supreme Court has recently ruled on the concept of originality in respect of architectural works, and for the first time has established clear and specific guidelines for applying…
A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law
The Supreme Court provided guidance on how to assess whether a work should be considered to be an adaptation, within the meaning of…
A full report of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law.
In this interesting case, the Supreme Court of Estonia examined whether the answers given by the claimant in the framework of an…
Can a scooter enjoy, contemporaneously, protection as a three-dimensional trademark (hereinafter 3D mark) and under copyright law? Apparently it can, at least according to the Court of Turin, which…
It could be called the Dutch case of the summer of 2016: the question of whether beer manufacturer Bavaria's slogan “Zo. Nu eerst een Bavaria” (translated: “So. Now first a Bavaria”) is a work…
As discussed in this blog post, the impact which Brexit has on the UK’s copyright regime will largely depend on the exact form that Brexit takes.
Whilst copyright has remained far less harmonised…
The court of appeals confirmed that there had been infringement of copyright in the claimant's photographs, and in doing so, clarified the requirements for the protection of photos as copyright works…
