There are many rulings concerning the protection of a format at Italian level. In particular, the Court of Rome, with an important ruling of 2017 decided that a TV format needs to have an original creative core having novelty and must be connotated by expressive completeness in order to be protected by copyright. Moreover, it […]
By ruling no. 14697 of October 16th 2023, the Court of Rome clarified the requirements for the protection of a work as a database. The case A company and an expert chemist – in the course of a collaboration – started an educational project relating to cosmetics and detergents. In particular, on the company’s website, […]
By ruling of June 9th 2023, the District Court of Florida stated that the work of art “Comedian” by Cattelan -representing the famous banana taped on a wall – does not infringe the copyright on Joe Morford’s work Banana and Orange. The case: Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian accused of copyright infringement In 2001 the US conceptual […]
The Court of Milan recently ruled on a case of alleged musical plagiarism concerning a song considered to be similar to another song previously filed as unpublished work at SIAE. The requirements of musical plagiarism Preliminarily, the Court restated some important principles in order to establish the existence of musical plagiarism. On one hand, it […]
April 26th is World Intellectual Property Day, promoted by WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization. The theme...
