14.01.2025
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
When movie magic plays off-screen
Film music has a significant role in creating atmosphere and emotion on screen. Not only does it provide a backdrop to the plot and evoke emotions, but it also affects our imagination. Until recently, film producers, when thinking about creating music for a film, focused mainly on the authorial aspect of making music for a [...]
29.08.2024
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
Is the artist limited by anything other than his imagination? Duchamp's Urinal and Andi Warhol's Invisible Sculptures which is about the legal framework of artistic creation in contemporary art.
As we know, art does not stay still. No thought was likely given during the creation of the law to the problem of protecting the display of an ordinary urinal as a work of art[1], an installation consisting of a banana stuck to the wall with duct tape[2] or the placement of an artificial palm [...]
09.09.2022
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
When do historians have to apologize for the results of their research? On the collision between the freedom of scientific research and the memory of the deceased.
The results of scientific research, especially historical research, sometimes lead to a clash of values: the right to freedom of scientific research and the right to the protection of personal property consisting in the memory of a deceased person. So when does a historian have to apologize for his work? What lessons for historical researchers [...]
12.05.2020
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
Is every fashion project protected by copyright?
Cristóbal Balenciaga - one of the most important fashion designers of the 20th century - said that "a fashion designer must be an architect of design, sculptor of form, painter of color, musician of harmony and philosopher of restraint"[1]. A clothing creator should combine many factors in his work. His task is, above all, to [...]
26.03.2020
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
Fashion in SARS-CoV-2 times
It started quite innocently. The coronavirus forced Chinese designers, merchants, stylists and other representatives of the fashion industry to resign from participating in Milan Fashion Week autumn-winter 2020/2021. From 18 February to 24 February 2020, they were not part of an event overflowing with Italian chic. The Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (or National Chamber [...]
14.08.2019
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
20 years of court battle for two seconds of music - or how to legally sample?
After exactly two decades of dispute between the classics of the German electronic music scene, Kraftwerk and hip-hop producers, M. Pelham and M. Haas, the Court of Justice of the European Union answered the question on the legality of the use of samples. To be exact, on one of the threads important in answering such [...]
29.10.2018
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
Where will the „Stairway to heave” lead to?
The issue of music plagiarism on the example of the case against Led Zeppelin. The controversial issue of music plagiarism (already addressed on this blog (is gathering more harvest in terms of copyright law. The US Court of Appeal (9th District) overruled the judgment of the Federal Court of Los Angeles that was favourable for Led [...]
13.08.2018
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
Fashion – with the law at its inception
The world of great fashion involves collections, fashion shows, sessions, banquets and spectacular shifts at the top. Milan, Paris, London, New York, increasingly Dubai. One has to have the appropriate profession or a day made of rubber to catch up with it all. How did it start? At a time when people’s lives were much [...]
27.01.2017
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
The Court of Justice of the EU on twice the appropriate remuneration under the Act on Copyright and Related Rights
The judgement issued on 25 January 2017 (Case C-367/15, the OTK Association v. Polish Filmmakers Association) considered as compatible with EU law the provision of the act of 4 February 1994, on Copyright and Related Rights which allows the holder of copyrights to request from the infringer of these rights twice the sum equivalent to [...]
21.12.2016
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
Composers strike (back)
Musicians and composers working in the US market stand up for yours and their royalties. Under the Copyright Act of 1976, the creators of works created in the 70s and 80s more and more often take steps to recover the property rights to their works. Recently, such an action was taken by composer Ennio Morricone. [...]
07.10.2016
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
Changes to the Personal Income Tax Law. More money in the wallets of (some) artists and creators?
The amendment to the Law on Personal Income Tax (PIT) is seen as a new solution for the optimal settlements for a specific group of taxpayers. In practice, the change is nothing more than the restoration (though incomplete) of what used to be. The “new” idea of the government – a change to the PIT [...]
17.08.2016
FASHION, CULTURE & ART
Young Artist v. Textile Giant – A dispute over the limits of replication in fashion
Celine-like shoes, Anya Hindmarch-like handbag... a number of popular high-street fashion shops are often accused of having in their stock nearly exact copies of international fashion house collections. Inditex, a group to which Zara belongs, has also been a target of such allegations. Apart from discussions over the limits of inspiration in fashion and the [...]
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