Latvia: Authorship as a legal fact, District Court of Zemgale, Riga, C31338513, 30 October 2014

The Court rejected B's application to establish his authorship of a film as a legal fact.  Under Copyright Law no registration or other formalities are required to enjoy copyright protection. It follows that a person owns copyright upon creating a work and there are no special documents certifying the authorship. Therefore a court cannot turn into a copyright registry by establishing legal facts of authorship.

A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law.