Idea/expression dichotomy in copyright law: Italian and EU originality threshold, CJEU jurisprudence, merger doctrine, case studies. 2026 legal guide.
Category: Media and Entertainment
The European Convention on Cinematographic Co-Production: 1992 framework, 2017 Rotterdam revision, 5% minimum threshold, extra-European partners, operational use.
Film colourisation and director integrity right: Huston (France 1991), Zinnemann (Italy 2005), AI colorization, civil/common law analysis. 2026 guide.
Complete guide to Italy's film co-production treaties: 39 bilateral treaties, European Convention framework, official status requirements, Italian access points.
DANDI's film and entertainment law practice in Italy: production legal services for producers, directors, writers, distributors, broadcasters, AI compliance.
Film Production IP Challenges in Italy: A Producer’s Strategic Guide Every film is fundamentally an intellectual property asset — its script, its audiovisual fixation, its underlying music, its visual elements, and its performances all engage …
NFT, Web3, and digital asset IP in Italy: MiCA Regulation, copyright misconceptions, smart contracts, art and music tokenization, AML compliance.
Film Production Intellectual Property Challenges: An Italian and EU Framework for Independent and International Productions Every film, television series, documentary, and audiovisual work is fundamentally an intellectual property project. The legal infrastructure underlying a production …
Moral rights in film: final cut, dubbing, restoration, colorization, AI deepfake, Article 44 LDA co-authorship. 2026 Italian and EU cinema law guide.
Practical guide to preventing image theft: copyright registration, metadata, watermarks, monitoring, takedown notices, enforcement under Italian and EU law.
Model release forms for fashion, advertising, stock photography, and e-commerce shoots in Italy: structure, Italian law framework, AI training clauses.
Option agreement for film rights under Italian law: structure, 16 essential elements, modern issues including streaming and AI clause integration.
AI-generated photography and copyright: the Eldagsen Sony Award case, EU AI Act transparency obligations, Italian framework, originality threshold.
Film coproductions Germany and Italy – Everything you need to know! Despite the strength of the theatrical market in both countries and the geographical proximity, there are still only a few bilateral film coproductions between …
McDonald’s EU Trademark Cases: From the MacCoffee Victory to the Supermac’s Reversal McDonald’s holds one of the most extensive and aggressively-enforced trademark portfolios in the EU. The company’s “Mc” and “Mac” trademark family has produced …
More than Just a Game Interactive Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law (Second edition), Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London Friday, 8 April 2016. Interactive Entertainment is bursting with Intellectual Property. In …
Big Data Revolution: Ten Legal Perspectives The term “Big Data” has invaded (also) the legal debate, despite its inevitably fuzzy notion. Associated with it are the terms “Internet-of-things” and “Data driven innovation”. We shall not …
Trademarks Patents Intellectual property. Sex and property rights: Trademarks, patents and other forms of protection of intellectual property As we know trademarks can be registered but also can be de facto. In the first case …
Producing pornographic films. Sex industries: Can the economic project involving various persons, all linked by a raft of contracts, be considered legal in private law terms? The sex industry (also called the sex trade) consists of …