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Registered theatre play copied to video
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Registered theatre play copied to video
- Cita
- Court of Cassation, Civil Appeal 268/2001, rule 146
- Tribunal
- Court of Cassation, Civil Circuit
- Instancia
- court_of_cassation
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2002-06-03
- Estado
- final_cassation_merits_adjustment
- Resultado
- Moral-damage denial corrected; BHD 500 awarded in addition to the material component reflected in the appeal.
- Resumen
- Yes. Even exploitation without false attribution can deprive the author of opportunity and cause personal distress; the court awarded BHD 500 moral damages.
- Antecedentes
- A theatre producer/author registered a play and alleged the defendant copied it to video and sold it. In case 2/1999/2804/2 he sought BHD 20,000. Trial awarded BHD 3,000 material and moral damages; appeal 1145/2001 reduced material damages to BHD 6 and denied moral damages.
- Historia procesal
- A theatre producer/author registered a play and alleged the defendant copied it to video and sold it. In case 2/1999/2804/2 he sought BHD 20,000. Trial awarded BHD 3,000 material and moral damages; appeal 1145/2001 reduced material damages to BHD 6 and denied moral damages.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether unauthorized financial exploitation can itself cause moral injury to the author and justify separate compensation.
- Criterio
- Yes. Even exploitation without false attribution can deprive the author of opportunity and cause personal distress; the court awarded BHD 500 moral damages.
- Fundamento decisivo
- The author's personal moral interest and economic exploitation can be injured by the same unauthorized act, subject to separate proof and valuation.
- Límites
- Personal-author remedy; it does not support machine moral rights. Must be read with Appeal 30/1995 denying moral damages to an economic assignee.
- Relevancia
- autoria-output
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- binding_or_highly_authoritative_national_cassation_on_moral_damage Integración/votación: Abdulrahman bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Khalifa; Ali Yusuf Mansour; Masaad Ramadan Al-Saai; Taha Abdel Mawla Taha panel disposition; no dissent recorded
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Registered theatre play copied to video
- Enlace
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- Autoridad
- Court of Cassation, Civil Circuit
- Tipo
- doctrina-general
- Tipo de evidencia
- complete_primary_judicial_file
- Localizador
- official text, rule 146; lines 18-35, 44-60, 84-104
- Verificación documentada
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