The Italian Regulatory Authority for Communications (AGCOM) has recently published the “The Regulation for The Intermediation of Copyright and Related Rights” in compliance with the EU directive of April 17th 2019, better known as Copyright Directive (EU Directive 2019/790). The Directive has been adopted with the purpose of modernizing and harmonizing the European normative framework […]
Category Archives: Copyright & royalties
Fair use and meme: the decision of the USA Court of Appeal
On July 7th 2024, the Court of Appeal of the United States issued an important judgment on the protection of a meme, generally known as an image or video that, combined in some cases with a caption, is usually aimed at entertaining and made to be widely shared on the internet, mainly through social media. […]
Single Lamp and Exhibition Booth: no to individual protection
The Supreme Court of Cassation, with order no. 11413, has recently expressed itself in connection with the case of an alleged plagiarism of an artistic work consisting of a lamp, made for the fitting of an exhibition booth presented during the X Triennale in Milan, an international show dedicated to industrial design which took place […]
Online piracy: the EU Court of Justice authorizes the identification of guilty parties through IP addresses
By the judgement issued on April 30 2024 (case C-470/21) the EU Court of Justice dealt, upon request of the French State Council, with the repression of online copyright violation. With this decision, by balancing the protection of privacy with the investigation needs in the context of the fight against cybercrime, the Court has authorized […]