Nathalie FAYETTE
April 15, 2022
The famous luxury house Louis Vuitton was recently ordered by the Paris Court of Appeal to pay 700,000 euros in damages to the designer of the “LV tournant” lock for infringement of her copyright. The case was between the independent designer Jocelyne Imbert and Louis Vuitton Malletier (LVM), for whom she had created the “LV tournant” lock in 1988. In return for the transfer of rights to the lock for city, travel and leisure bags, the company undertook to pay the designer a fixed fee. Under the terms of successive contracts between the parties, it was also stipulated that […]
April 8, 2022
You may have spent hours and hours building a virtual home worthy of the greatest architectural creations on gaming platforms, but if the developer decides to replicate it in the real world, the terms of use to which you agree often give him this opportunity. Worse, if you don’t comply with the terms of use, your house may be inaccessible or even destroyed. This new status of a creator who does not hold any copyright is quite innovative, surprising and contrary to all the copyright rules which have been laying down for decades the sacred principle that the author always […]
March 31, 2022
The announcement by Éditions Dupuis of a new Gaston Lagaffe album drawn by the Canadian author Marc Delaf, to be published in October 2022, was a bombshell at the Angoulême International Comics Festival and did not fail to move fans of the character created by Franquin in 1957, divided between nostalgia and dilemma about the sacredness of the character and the work. But do Éditions Dupuis have the right to revive Gaston Lagaffe for new adventures when his author and creator Franquin disappeared in 1997? His work is obviously protected by copyright and its exploitation is therefore controlled. If Éditions […]
March 18, 2022
Be one step ahead of counterfeiters on the Internet, inform your (future) customers of their activities and, above all, give them the exact address of your website, so that distracted customers do not end up on the counterfeit website: CARGLASS : “TYPE .FR TO BE SURE TO REACH US!” This windshield repair and replacement company asks us at the end of its TV commercials (reaching a large audience) to order their intervention on their website carglass.FR: Why ? Competitors have bought the keyword CARGLASS from Google Ads (which is unfortunately legal) to move up in the search engine’s results among […]