Legal Works as Creative Works: The Original Decision of the Court of Venice
In March, the IP Court of Venice (Court) provided a unique ruling on copyright law.
The Court ruled on an issue concerning the application of Italian copyright laws to protect a legal work created by a lawyer works.
A lawyer (Plaintiff) sued an entity (Entity), which was organizing an exposition for the infringement of Plaintiff’s moral rights due to the non-authorized use of a document containing IP policy guidelines (Document) to be distributed among the exhibitors, which entirely reproduced a document drafted years ago by the Plaintiff for another entity.