‘Works of applied art – the difference between design and copyright law’

In 2011, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), for the first time, had to decide on issues revolving around the protection of different categories of works under European copyright law. In Painer (C-145/10), a pillar of copyright law since then, the CJEU held that copyright protection must be given a ‘broad interpretation’ (para 96) and then found (emphasis added) … (more)

[Henning Hartwig, The IPKat, 25 March 2024]

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