The uncertainty and confusion that generated the lack of a unified framework for the protection of copyright led 10 European States in 1886 to sign the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary ...

The Situation: The Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") recently ruled that design works must be protected by copyright in the EU regardless of their country of origin. This decision ...

This post was originally published on Spicy IP. Given the complex nature of this issue and the fact that many such discussions happen behind paywalls, making them inaccessible to the public, we ...

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The Prime Minister prides himself on his credentials as a human rights lawyer who once argued a case in the International Court of Justice. But a legal opinion from top copyright lawyer Nicholas ...

Much of the congressional debate over the United States' adoption of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works focused on the "moral rights" therein recognized. Yet soon ...

In particular, Article 5 of the convention, paragraphs 1 and 2, allows a foreign author to protect his rights abroad in the absence of any filing with an industrial property once, and to rely on the ...

A court has ruled that the public benefit of the revenue that would come from the tender would not compensate for the loss of the animals. A court has canceled a tender for the hunting of 47 wild ...