With judgment of July 11th 2022, the Court of Milan accepted the appeal presented by Sony, Universal and Warner against Cloudflare Inc., ordering to block the DNS resolution of any website allowing to unlawfully download torrent files. The DNS (Domain Name System) is a system which allows to convert the numeric strings composing the IP […]
Category Archives: Copyright & royalties
Music piracy: the Court of Milan accepts the appeal of Sony, Universal and Warner against Cloudflare
The source codes of a graphic work can be transferred only with an express agreement
The issue objected of the examination of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation focuses on who is the owner of a work created on a commission basis. Even though this is a well-known topic, it does not find in the case-law of merit a peaceful agreeable solution. Before appealing to the Court of Cassation, the […]
The qualification as author of an intellectual work in the “conceptual art” era: the idea prevails on the execution.
The case Maurizio Cattelan vs Daniel Druet puts at the center of the controversy between the two artists the ownership of the intellectual work made on commission. On July 8th 2022, the Court of Paris rejected, for a procedural technicality, the request of Daniel Druet, a French sculptor of wax works, to be declared the […]
The advertising slogan containing third-party famous trademarks cannot be protected
With the recent sentence of March 14th 2022 no. 8276, the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation stated that an advertising slogan referring to particularly well-known trademarks cannot be protected by copyright. The case The case concerned the advertising slogan “500% FIAT”, designed and filed before the SIAE as an original work by someone who was […]