Italy: copyright protection only for ‘high level’ industrial design
…a preliminary ruling. With the decision handed down on 27 January 2011 in case C‑168/09, the CJEU stated that: “1. Article 17 of Directive 98/71/EC of the European Parliament and…
…a preliminary ruling. With the decision handed down on 27 January 2011 in case C‑168/09, the CJEU stated that: “1. Article 17 of Directive 98/71/EC of the European Parliament and…
…optional notification procedure contained in Article 6-I-5 of the LCEN. The article describes the different elements that allow the identification of the disputed material. The notification is only a way…
…the direction of their own lawmakers and partner-stakeholders to determine what constitutes a ‘diligent search’ at national level, following the criteria they may establish pursuant to article 3(2) of the…
…Article 14 Basic Law and the conflicting interests to make use of a work for teaching and research purposes. In this regard, the Court of Appeals also pointed out that…
…Cassation grounded its decision on Articles L. 335-4 and L. 336-2 of the French Intellectual Property Code (IPC). The first article defines the criminal offence of copyright infringement and the…
…parasitic business model allegedly abundant on the internet, piggybacking on the great achievements of publishing houses. According to this view, snippets of news and articles are to be turned into…
…to monitor derived from their obligation to expeditiously remove allegedly infringing content or to prevent access to it (Article 14 of the e-commerce Directive transposed in Article 6-I.2 of the…
…rights holder terminates the contractual relationship. In other words, this article allows for a unilateral modification of the contract for MTL uses, preventing a national repertoire lock-in concerning these uses…
…composed of a 44 Recitals preamble and an identical number of articles (is this a Catch 44 or is the Commission obsessed with this “mysterious stranger“?), making it the longest…
…(that occurred in Italy) amounted to aiding and abetting an act of copyright infringement in accordance with Articles 106, 108a and 17 of the German Author’s Rights Act, that is,…