The Court reiterates principles previously articulated in Cofemel and Brompton and seeks to clarify (i) how the originality of a design object is to be assessed for copyright purposes and (ii) how infringement is to be established.

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Three years after COFEMEL, the Italian trial courts still seem far from recognising that copyright protection cannot be conditional on the existence of any artistic value. Here are the most relevant decisions on the matter.