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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
With judgement no. 20250 of July 15, 2021, the Italian Supreme Court confirmed that the creation of a software with similar functions to those of another existing software, is not always counterfeiting, not even if the new software is created starting from the source code of the already existing software. The case concerned a dispute […]
April 26th is World Intellectual Property Day, promoted by WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization. The theme...
