Authorship must be demonstrated A person who claims to be a copyright holder must ‘provide any reasonably available evidence enabling the court to satisfy itself with a sufficient degree of certainty that the applicant is the rightholder’. Dirk Visser • May 09, 2023
Artificial art, copyright, evidence and disclosure Art created with the help of AI poses interesting questions regarding copyright and the need for new rules on evidence of human creativity and a possible obligation to disclose the use of AI. Dirk Visser • March 09, 2023
Trade mark proprietor liable for defective product Trade mark proprietors who authorise that their trade mark is put on a product, are liable towards the consumer for a defect in that product. This also applies if they were not involved in the production of that product. Dirk Visser • July 20, 2022
Trademarks in works of art are allowed An artist may incorporate another person's registered trademark in a work of art, provided that the work of art 'is the original result of a creative design process that is not aimed at damaging the trademark or the trademark owner'. Dirk Visser and Pauline Springorum • November 11, 2019 • 1 comment
