Tuesday, 4 July 2017

Shop Till You Drop… Your Claim… Stores’ Layout Protected by French Copyright

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After the recent case of the Jimi Hendrix photograph (see here and here ), we have another case about the importance of originality in Fr...
Sunday, 2 July 2017

Details of new edition of Postgraduate Diploma/Masters in UK, EU & US Copyright Law now available

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The 1709 Blog has learned that the 2017-2018  prospectus  of the Distance Learning Programme leading to a Postgraduate Diploma/Masters i...
Saturday, 1 July 2017

Olivia de Havilland Files a Right of Publicity Suit against Feud Producers

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Legendary actress Olivia de Havilland celebrates her 101 st birthday today. Happy Birthday Miss de Havilland! If you do not remembe...
Thursday, 29 June 2017

France’s Highest Court Rules in Favor of Freedom of Expression of Director over Heirs’ Droit Moral

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Readers of this blog may remember that the Paris Court of Appeals found in October 2015 that the staging of the opera Le Dialogue des ...
Sunday, 18 June 2017

Mankowitz’s famous portrait of Jimi Hendrix is original and deserves copyright protection, says Paris Court of Appeal.

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The original portrait by Mankowitz Readers will remember that a couple of years ago this blog wrote that the Paris Tribunal de Grand I...
Wednesday, 14 June 2017

Drake's transformation prevails in plagiarism claim

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Drake, along with his record labels and music publishers, have won a difficult lawsuit that had claimed his song “ Pound Cake/Paris Morton...

CJEU says that site like The Pirate Bay makes acts of communication to the public

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First published by Eleonora Rosati on the IPKat   Is there a communication to the public within the meaning of Article 3(1) of the  ...