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As students of EU law know, a key principle – which the now Court of Justice of the European...

One of the best-known frames of Todd Phillips’s 2019 Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix is that...

Over the years, The IPKat has reported on the growing body of case law issued by Italian courts...

Last week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its much- (though not long-)...

A few days ago, the District Court of Hamburg delivered what appears to be the first judgment in...

The owner of the rights to children's book series Der Räuber Hotzenplotz ('The Robber Hotzenplotz...

One of the cornerstones of international copyright law – specifically: the Berne Convention (BC) ...

If you, like me, are now experiencing the full post-traumatic stress disorder caused by failing...

When it comes to contemporary art, I must admit at the outset that there are fewer artists who I...

After it was referred back in 2021, a few days ago the Grand Board of the European Union...

Should the EU unify the copyright laws of its Member States and introduce, over thirty years...

Is it an infringement of a person’s own personality/image rights to say that a shoe was designed...

Over the past week, there has only been one deserving topic of discussion: the picture that was...

In the ancient Greek and Roman world, sybils were priestesses who acted as gods’ intermediaries...

Where do you draw the line between the “mere provision of physical facilities”, which – in...

After the referrals in Mio [IPKat here and here] and USM Haller [IPKat here], another referral...

When you think of Prada (at least from a trade mark perspective), what Prada itself refers to as...

At what conditions can works of applied art be protected by copyright under EU law? If this...

As expected, now that most – though not all – EU Member States have completed their own...

Last week was an eventful one for Piaggio, the Tuscan company that has developed and owns the...