Accessing a pay database to download images to be used for business does not automatically give the right of using those images even after the end of the subscription. The Court of Milan has decided that facing the case of a publishing house opposing the payment order issued in favor of the holder of the […]
The process for patent, trademark and copyright litigations has to be fast and efficacious. Those enduring an infringement of rights in these particular subjects cannot wait the long times of justice because counterfeiting economically speaking may have catastrophic effects which cannot always be reimbursed after two or three years. For this reason the main instrument […]
The Court of Cassation (ruling no. 24062 of 12.10.2017) held that even a simple advertising spot can amount to a work protected by copyright and as such be protected. The advertising slogan that is the subject of ruling was indeed quite original. It was the image of a person whose head had a series of […]
Copyright law regulates the relationships between the copy of a work and its reproductions through an article, namely art. 109 of Italian Copyright Law (in brief, LA), that deals with two separate cases and provides that: « Unless differently agreed, the transfer of one or more copies of a work does not entail the conveyance […]
April 26, 2025, marks World Intellectual Property Day, and this year’s theme will be music. The initiative...
