The question of copyright subsistence in EU copyright law will never get old. In the InfoSoc Directive, the EU legislature harmonised some of the economic rights, but left entirely unaddressed the…
With an order (Cass., ord. no.11413/2024) that suprisingly triggered little attention, at the end of last April the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) proffered yet once more its…
The Advocate-General’s opinion in the Kwantum v. Vitra referral is remarkable in several ways. The case concerns the protection under Dutch copyright of the iconic “DSW” chair designed by American…
Source: European Copyright Society
This blog post contains an edited version of the European Copyright Society’s Opinion on Case C-227/23, Kwantum Nederland and Kwantum België.
The Berne…
The Patent and Market Court of Appeal upheld the first instance Court's judgment, confirming that a motorboat could be protected by copyright as a work of applied art, and that this copyright had…
