Category Archives: Copyright & royalties

Hosting Provider: the Court of Rome clarifies the area of responsibility of the passive hosting

hosting provider

The Court of Rome, with decision no. 5700/2023 of 7 April 2023, ruled on the matter of the hosting provider responsibility for copyright infringements carried out by users of the platform. The case The case submitted to the Court of Rome concerned the abusive diffusion, on a video sharing platform, of a high quantity of […]

Works created with AI: the US Copyright Office publishes the first operative guidelines for the registration

works created with AI

On 16 March 2023 the US Copyright Office announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at examining the problems connected to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation of works of art and to face the issue of the use of copyright protected materials for training the AI. Interaction between art and […]

Protection of a Tv format: how important is the deposit at SIAE?

tv format

With decision no. 3833/2023 of 8 March 2023, the Court of Rome expressed itself again on the protection of a tv format, recalling the most recent jurisprudential findings and providing a new interpretation of the importance of the deposit at SIAE to protect copyright. The case An employee of the publishing group Gambero Rosso, hired […]

Creative and “simple” photographs: in both cases the unauthorized use is illicit

unauthorized use of simple photographs

On June 22, 2022, the Court of Rome issued decision no. 10041/2022 which clarifies the difference between creative and simple photographs, confirming that even the unauthorized use of simple photographs represents an illicit and implies the obligation to compensate the damage. The Case A photographic agency sued a newspaper stating that the latter illegally used […]