Author: Claudia Roggero

Trademark infringement cases. Apple is being sued by the owner of the iWatch trademark – APPLE IS BEING SUED by the owner of the ‘iWatch’ trademark, despite naming its first wearable the Apple Watch. Dublin-based software …

Copyrighting obscene work of art. Can one assert copyright over an obscene work of art? In this regard, the first question which arises is if the author can claim rights over the result of his intellectual …

File sharing films impact. Introduction The main argument of those who support piracy is: that every important sector of big media today was born of a kind of piracy so defined. “…If piracy means using …

Italy’s competition watchdog, AGCM, has opened a probe into collective-rights management society Nuovoimaie to see whether the entity abused its dominant position in the field of copyright. The original article is in Italian. Sorry about that!

Creating inventive ideas template and commercial exploitation While inventive ideas differ radically in their content, their potential for commercial exploitation and in the parameters of legal protection that are open to them, it is good …

Eagles File Trademark Suit Against Mexican Hotel California The Eagles are suing the owners of a Mexican hotel named Hotel California, claiming it’s capitalizing off the band’s hit song of the same name. The band …

Image rights and Melania Trump “Just imagine how far you can go with a little bit of English,” reads the advert for the Americki Institut, an English-language school in Croatia. And now Melania Trump – …