India, Oct. 17 -- Although a pair of jeans may fit perfectly and look good to boot, this does not in and of itself confer copyright protection. That was the verdict of the ECJ in a ruling from September 12, 2019 (Az.: C-683/17).
According to the established case-law of the ECJ, an original subject matter constituting the expression of its author"s own intellectual creation can be classified as a "work" and enjoy copyright protection. We at the commercial law firm MTR Rechtsanwalte https://www.mtrlegal.com/en.html note, therefore, that designs can, under certain circumstances, benefit from copyright protection.
However, the ECJ has since set the bar high for designs to benefit from copyright protection in a recent ruling. The Court held th...