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ECDR - latest copyright cases

The March 2006 final result of Sweet & Maxwell's much-beloved, if lilliputian known, European Copyright in addition to Design Reports, has straight off been published. It contains 4 English linguistic communication versions of non-English decisions:

* Thane International's application , inwards which a High German Landsgericht explains that prior publication of an unregistered blueprint inwards the USA volition undermine European Union protection for it.

* Peter O**** v F****, an Austrian copyright illustration earlier the Supreme Court, dealing amongst the inquiry whether the making of a paradigm from a photograph of a bunch of grapes leads to legal liability.

* Yaacov v Inbar, inwards which the Tel Aviv District Court,in a conclusion since affirmed past times the Israeli Supreme Court holds a police trace pupil liable for turning his lecture notes into a Tort Textbook.

* Hotel de Girancourt v SCIR Normandie, where the French Cour de Cassation ruled that the possessor of a edifice has no proprietary correct to halt others taking photos of it.

There's every bit good the ruling of Judge Michael Fysh inwards Woodhouse v Aquila, the English linguistic communication Patents County Court conclusion on the important of the term "informed user" inwards U.K. blueprint law.

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