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Photographer v periodical publisher — four documentary photographs
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Photographer v periodical publisher — four documentary photographs
- Cita
- Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus, decision of 15 October 2009
- Tribunal
- Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus, Judicial Collegium for Intellectual Property Matters
- Instancia
- national supreme court exercising first-instance copyright jurisdiction
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2009-10-15
- Estado
- resolved-protectability-recognized
- Resultado
- Protectability recognized; the exact final monetary or injunctive remedy is not reconstructed in the accessible source.
- Resumen
- Yes. The accepted repeat examination identified creative novelty, originality, uniqueness and individuality in composition, unusual viewpoints, light and shade, and emotional effect.
- Antecedentes
- Four documentary photographs were used in a periodical. Protectability turned on whether the images reflected creative choices despite their documentary character.
- Historia procesal
- The court considered an initial expert assessment and a repeat forensic art examination dated 20 August 2009. It criticized the first opinion as contradictory and accepted the repeat opinion.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether documentary photographs used in a periodical possessed sufficient creative character for copyright protection.
- Criterio
- Yes. The accepted repeat examination identified creative novelty, originality, uniqueness and individuality in composition, unusual viewpoints, light and shade, and emotional effect.
- Fundamento decisivo
- Documentary subject matter and camera technology do not eliminate copyright when the claimant proves individualized expressive decisions in composition, viewpoint and visual treatment.
- Límites
- No AI. The case is expert-dependent, predates the 2011 Copyright Law and the 2024 creativity presumption, and the complete official decision was not retrievable cross-border.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- Historical authoritative Supreme Court application; nonbinding precedent and source-limited. Integración/votación: Court composition and judge name not disclosed in the accessible reconstruction. No dissent or separate opinion reported; exact composition unavailable.
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Photographer v periodical publisher — four documentary photographs
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- Autoridad
- Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus, Judicial Collegium for Intellectual Property Matters
- Tipo
- doctrina-general
- Tipo de evidencia
- primary_judicial_identity_with_scholarly_reconstruction
- Localizador
- Ivanova 2024, p. 95 and reference 6; preserved extraction lines 205-232 and 383-386
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