With decision of February 14th 2022, the Copyright Office of the United States rejected definitely the request to protect by copyright the work of art created by an artificial intelligence. The work under exam, called “A Recent Entrance to Paradise”, is a bidimensional image created in a completely automatized way by a machine called “Creativity […]
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The Court of Turin grants copyright protection to an architectural project of building renovation
With order of January 14th 2022, the Court of Turin, section specialized in business matters, affirmed the protectability as a work of ingenuity of a preliminary study having as object a project of renovation of a building complex. The decision, taken in the course of a precautionary complaint, constitutes a further confirmation of the direction […]
The Italian Supreme Court confirms the damage compensation for the woman filmed with her secret lover in a Gigi D’Alessio music video
With order n. 36754 of November 25th 2021, the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation accepted the claim for damages in favor of a woman who, without giving any consent to use her image, saw herself filmed hand in hand with her lover in the music video of the song “Oi nenna nè” of singer Gigi […]
The Italian Supreme Court rules on the alleged copyright expiration on some Disney works
With ruling no. 33598/2021 of November 11th 2021, the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation stated that the historical cartoons produced by Disney between 1930 and 1948 (among which there are the famous “Snow white and the seven dwarfs” and “Fantasia”) are still copyright protected. On the basis of the decision there is the acknowledgment of […]