Court of Cassation with sentence n. 13171 of the 24.06.2016 has definitely decided on the case of the slogan “you are, we care” conceived by a professional figure on the commission of an advertising agency and then adopted by Fiat to publicize its own products. The Court has established three important principles on copyright. In […]
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“Gomorra”: the Supreme Court and a case of copyright infringement
The Supreme Court recently issued an interesting ruling (no. 12314 of 06/15/2015) concerning copyright. In that judgment, the Court confirmed its case-law on copyright infringement limited to certain parts of a work, and it is expressed on compensation of the damages. The dispute, according to the decision of the Supreme Court, which covers a famous […]
Data taken from a web site: Ryaniar v. PR Aviation, the preliminary ruling of the Court of Justice
On 15 Juanuary 2015 the Court of Justice set out a preliminary ruling in the case C-30/14 Ryanair v. PR Aviation BV about the use of data taken from a web site without authorisation. PR Aviation operates a website on which consumers can search through the flight data of low-cost air companies, compare prices and, […]
The Court rules again about “embedding”
On the basis of the judgment C-466/12 (“Svensson v. Retriever Sverige AB) recently the Court of Justice has ruled again on the relationship between copyright and forms of communication to the public of copyright works, according to art. 3, par. 1 of Directive 2001/29 on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights […]