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Al-Marash monument collective-work dispute
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Al-Marash monument collective-work dispute
- Cita
- Court of Cassation, Civil Appeals 891 and 1203/2019, rule 59
- Tribunal
- Court of Cassation, Civil Circuit
- Instancia
- court_of_cassation
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2020-04-06
- Estado
- final_consolidated_cassation
- Resultado
- The claimant's damages, destruction and attribution claims were rejected; the prior attribution order was reversed and the action dismissed in full.
- Resumen
- It was a collective work: the claimant supplied the general design while an engineering office prepared execution drawings under municipal initiative and direction, and the integrated product was published under the entities' responsibility. Article 33 vested the rights in those entities.
- Antecedentes
- An artist entered a 1994 Arab City Day sculpture/mural competition and placed fourth. He alleged municipal bodies replicated his monument design in 2009 and brought case 7621/2014. Trial ordered attribution but denied other relief; appeals 2844/2015 and 2948/2015 affirmed after expert evidence; both sides sought cassation.
- Historia procesal
- An artist entered a 1994 Arab City Day sculpture/mural competition and placed fourth. He alleged municipal bodies replicated his monument design in 2009 and brought case 7621/2014. Trial ordered attribution but denied other relief; appeals 2844/2015 and 2948/2015 affirmed after expert evidence; both sides sought cassation.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether the monument was the claimant's individual work or a collective work initiated and directed by the municipal entities, and who held moral and economic rights.
- Criterio
- It was a collective work: the claimant supplied the general design while an engineering office prepared execution drawings under municipal initiative and direction, and the integrated product was published under the entities' responsibility. Article 33 vested the rights in those entities.
- Fundamento decisivo
- Collective-work status requires initiative, direction, publication and inseparable integration of contributions. The decision identified multiple human contributors before allocating rights to juridical persons.
- Límites
- Does not authorize a corporation or AI to be the initial creator of authorless expression. Its institutional ownership holding rests on a statutory collective work with multiple human contributors.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- binding_or_highly_authoritative_national_cassation Integración/votación: Abdullah bin Hassan Al-Buainain; Masouma Abdelrasoul Issa; Nader Al-Sayed Ali Abdelmotaleb; Tarek Mohamed Fathy Mohamed Amin consolidated panel disposition; no dissent recorded
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Al-Marash monument collective-work dispute
- Enlace
- Consultar fuente
- Autoridad
- Court of Cassation, Civil Circuit
- Tipo
- doctrina-general
- Tipo de evidencia
- complete_primary_judicial_file
- Localizador
- official text, rule 59; lines 174-260, 383-539 and 582-691 of preserved extraction; duplicate docket copy CASE-1203 has identical SHA-256
- Verificación documentada
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