Besides tulips, cheese, football and other recreational matters, the Netherlands are famous for its copyright protection of non-original writings. Geschriftenbescherming, as the Dutch call this…
The usefulness of a computer program is not sufficient to characterise the originality of the program.
There is nothing more subjective, and often arbitrary and unfair, than the notion on which…
“What seems to lack in the decision of the Court, at the end of the day, is a clear test of what constitutes a structural element in the 'embryonic stage'.
Last 19 October 2012, the Italian Supreme…
UK: High Court Chancery Division, 23 March 2012, Seaton v Seddon.
The members of the reggae band Musical Youth brought a case against their former solicitors with regards to the royalties due from a…
On 26 January 2012, the Belgian Supreme Court decided to quash an appeal decision deeming that “when requiring that a work must show the stamp of the author’s personality in order to benefit from…
By Mireille van Eechoud, Institute for Information Law (IViR)
Of the many questions addressed by the Court in its Painer judgment (Case C-145/10) the most impact will probably be on the construction…
UK: Future Publishing Ltd v. Edge Interactive Media Inc., High Court Chancery Division, 13 June 2011.
Copyright in logo: US companies involved in the business of computer games had infringed…
The Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-145/10, Painer v Standard VerlagsGmbH et al., parts of which have already been discussed in an earlier blog post (here), also deals with the copyrightability…
By Luke McDongagh, PhD Candidate, QMIPRI
The Irish Times has recently reported that the Joyce estate has, after many years of
refusal, finally granted the English singer Kate Bush permission to use…
