Summary for no. 3/2019

1. Doctrine, studies, comments

Andreea Livadariu
Analysis of the impact of the Copyright Directive in the digital unique market on mass-media and online content aggregators

Andra-Maria Drăgan
Originality, fundamental condition for copyright protection

Ramona Dumitraşcu
The beginnings of software protection in the comparative law Japan (I)

Ana Maria Marinescu
Cases of plagiarism in music

Nicoleta-Elena Hegheş, Adrian Cristian Moise
Brief considerations on the performance of computer search in case of the offense of unauthorized reproduction on computer systems of software

Gheorghe Gheorghiu
New regulation of know-how and trade secrets

Alexandru Teodorescu
Issues on the constitutionality of the institution of patent re-validation

Ioana Chiriţă
Analytical reflections on researching the EU trademarks priorities

2. European Case-Law

Copyright infringement by a person who had file-sharing and Internet connection accessible also to other members of his/her family. Decision from October 8th, 2018 of CJUE given in the case C-149/17 (Selection and processing by University lecturer Phd. Ciprian Raul Romiţan)

Exclusive right of broadcasting bodies. Communication of shows through the television apparatus installed in hotel rooms (Selection and processing by Univ. prof. Phd. Nicoleta Elena Hegheş)

3. National Case-Law

Trademark annulment. Conflict between mark and trade name. Condition of using the trade name as mark. Burden of proof (High Court of Cassation and Justice, Section I civil, decision no. 2547 of June 19th, 2018)

Action for annulment of a mark. The concept of „earlier mark” (High Court of Cassation and Justice, Section I civil, decision no. 1069 of March 23rd, 2018)

4. Collective management organizations

CREDIDAM Romanian Center for Performers' Rights Management

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