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Satirical video about Vučić – IP infringement, or not?

February 5, 2014, ,
Last Saturday (1 February) the internet was flooded with user-generated content ridiculing, in real time, the actions of the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić. Vučić visited a site in...
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Photographs and the current events exception in Serbian copyright law

October 31, 2013, ,
The High Court in Belgrade and the Appellate Court in the same city have issued a few decisions in 2013 rejecting arguments by the defendants that their use of photographs,...
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SOKOJ wins court battle against “Exit”

July 31, 2013, ,
This year’s Exit festival, a major event on Europe’s musical scene, which traditionally takes place in Novi Sad (Serbia), ended on 14 July. It is worth taking a look into...
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European courts weigh in on the interaction between intellectual property and (other) human rights

February 21, 2013, ,
The two highest judicial institutions in Europe – European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) – recently issued judgments concerning the relationship...
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Belgrade court missed an opportunity to clarify the originality of an article

January 23, 2013, ,
The High Court in Belgrade recently decided a case in which the central issue was the originality of a plaintiff’s article published in a magazine and later re-published on her...
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“Exit” Festival and Foreign Producers of Phonograms: New Challenge for O.F.P.S.

December 18, 2012, ,
The previous post described how the Serbian Commercial Appellate Court denied, in May of this year, a request by the Organization of Phonogram Producers of Serbia (O.F.P.S.) to collect royalties...
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Serbian O.F.P.S. cannot collect royalties for Italian music without an agreement with Italian collecting society

December 13, 2012, ,
Earlier this year, the Serbian Commercial Appellate Court ruled that the Organization of Phonogram Producers of Serbia (O.F.P.S.) had no valid claim to royalties for communication to the public of...
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Unauthorized use of trademarks and copyrighted works in movie scenes

October 29, 2012, , ,
The blawgosphere has reacted with consternation to the news that Faulkner Literary Rights, LLC sued Sony Pictures Classics, Inc. on October 25, 2012, over the use of nine words from...
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EU court rules software transfer is a sale

August 3, 2012, , , ,
One month ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) added its authoritative voice to the long-lasting debate on the legal nature of the transfer of software copies....
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Monopoly of collecting societies and sweeping obligation to pay royalties upheld by Constitutional Court

July 26, 2012 and , ,
On the day when the post about Serbian Music Authors’ Organization – The travails of SOKOJ – appeared on this blog (18 July 2012), the Official Gazette of Serbia published...
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