Sentence of the Court of Rome about IPR of a photo on Facebook

The IX Session of the Court of Rome made a decision condemning a newspaper, which had published a photo taken from Facebook, without recognizing the property rights of the photo author. The Court established that a person, who publishes photos on his/her Facebook page retains his/her property right on such photos.

Country: Italy

Domains: IPR

Stakeholder: Judicial

Tags: Italy, IPR, copyright, Internet, court decision

Posted on Thursday 11 June 2015

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