by manuel.roche | Nov 30, 2018 | All, Copyright, Designs
That’s right! This is France and France is known worldwide (at least we French people like to think so) for its contributions to the arts, its intellectual creations, its original productions. Yet we are talking about copyright protection claimed over a portal, a...
by manuel.roche | Nov 21, 2018 | All, Copyright
The EU law precludes (i) the taste of a food product from being protected by copyright and (ii) national legislation from being interpreted in such a way that it grants copyright protection to such a taste. The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union...
by manuel.roche | Aug 31, 2018 | All, Copyright, Designs
The layout of a retail store, even more if it is a flagship store or a franchise store, often created by a designer or an architect, may be protected in France by copyright if the originality of the store design is recognized by the courts. Such is the case of the...
by manuel.roche | Apr 30, 2018 | All, Copyright, Internet
In 2014, we told you about the surprising case of photographer David J. Slater and the famous Monkey Selfies (here). David Slater had filed a take-down request to remove from Wikimedia the photographs he had brought back from Indonesia. At that time, Wikimedia...
by manuel.roche | Jul 31, 2017 | All, Copyright, Trademarks
The French Cour de cassation, the highest civil court in France, recently issued a decision about how a concept can be protected through intellectual property rights. It is interesting to study this decision to be reminded that, although it is not impossible,...
