With sentence of December 13th 2021, no. 10280/2021, the Court of Milan – by listing the criteria able to distinguish a successful product from a work of art – pointed out when a product destined to be on the market has artistic value. The case concerned the counterfeiting of a popular handbag created by the […]
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A work of art created by an artificial intelligence cannot be protected by copyright

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 […]
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 […]