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Exclusive licensee v website operator — altered military-range photograph
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Exclusive licensee v website operator — altered military-range photograph
- Cita
- Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus, decision of 7 June 2016, Etalon regnum s91600050s
- Tribunal
- Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus, Judicial Collegium for Intellectual Property Matters
- Instancia
- national supreme court exercising exclusive first-instance copyright jurisdiction
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2016-06-07
- Estado
- resolved-claim-granted
- Resultado
- Infringement claim granted; the precise operative remedy is not available in the accessible reconstruction.
- Resumen
- Yes. The court accepted the expert finding that deliberate techniques, expressive composition and precise viewpoint produced creative novelty, originality, uniqueness and individuality.
- Antecedentes
- An exclusive licensee sued a website operator that posted an altered photograph without consent. The photograph depicted events at a military range; the claimant relied on a contract with the photographer.
- Historia procesal
- The Supreme Court obtained a forensic art examination addressing creative character and then resolved the infringement claim. The official Etalon identifier remains known; the accessible reconstruction quotes the expert reasoning.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether deliberate shooting choices made the range photograph a protected creative work and supported the exclusive licensee's enforcement claim.
- Criterio
- Yes. The court accepted the expert finding that deliberate techniques, expressive composition and precise viewpoint produced creative novelty, originality, uniqueness and individuality.
- Fundamento decisivo
- Protection turned on proved expressive decisions—composition, timing and viewpoint—not merely on ownership of camera equipment or a bare assertion of authorship.
- Límites
- No AI. The evidentiary language reflects one photographic expert assessment and predates the 2024 creativity presumption.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- Authoritative national Supreme Court first-instance application; nonbinding precedent and expert-specific. Integración/votación: Single-judge copyright disposition; judge name not disclosed in accessible materials. Single-judge disposition; no vote applicable.
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Exclusive licensee v website operator — altered military-range photograph
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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_identifier_with_peer_reviewed_reconstruction
- Localizador
- Bogustov 2022, p. 90, footnote 7; preserved extraction lines 6049-6086
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