Copyright and Authorship

Artificial Intelligence: the silent exploitation of authors’ works
This paper addresses the issue of artificial intelligences (capable of creating images from simple text prompts) and their possible misuse of the intellectual property rights [...]
11 October 2022

Copyright and websites: let’s make some clarifications
It is common to surf the web and find websites that are slightly too similar to one’s own, or to argue with the Web Agency [...]

Can I use a photograph found on the Web?
People perceive photographs on the Web as if they are publicly available, without an owner and therefore disposable at will. That’s wrong. The following article [...]
15 February 2022

What should a jewellery designer know about Design Law today?
Working as a lawyer and providing assistance in the jewellery design sector, I must answer a series of recurring questions on a daily basis. In [...]
29 January 2022

The new obligation to “report to authors” under Legislative Decree 177/2021 (Italian implementation of the EU Copyright Directive)
As of Dec. 12, 2021, anyone who exploits an author’s work will be required to report to him, at least every six months, a set [...]
9 December 2021

BANKSY: has he really lost one of “his” trademarks?
28 September 2020

The legal protection of the idea of a new board game
Effective protection strategy for board games requires advanced knowledge of the relevant legal discipline (intellectual property, patents and inventions, and design law). After all, board [...]
16 April 2020

…what if the author were a robot? (Artificial Intelligence and Copyright)
23 October 2019

About that Authors’ Rights (on tattoos) you didn’t know existed…
By now, a number of tattoo artists – as a specific category of artists/illustrators – have turned to our Law Firm for assistance in Copyright [...]
2 October 2019
