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Architectural competition — use beyond competition purpose
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Architectural competition — use beyond competition purpose
- Cita
- High Commercial Court of the Republic of Croatia, Pž-6267/2016-3, 18 January 2019
- record kind
- judicial_decision
- Tribunal
- High Commercial Court of the Republic of Croatia
- Instancia
- national commercial appellate court
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2019-01-18
- first instance
- 2015-10-28
- Estado
- appellate affirmance under predecessor commissioned-work rules
- Resultado
- HRK 197,685 award and appealed costs affirmed.
- Resumen
- No under the predecessor Act and contract. Ownership of the physical item was distinct from copyright; the author retained rights beyond the agreed competition purpose.
- Antecedentes
- A developer ran an architectural competition, paid HRK 15,000 for the entry, then used the claimant's urban-planning project to market/sell the land although the eventual buyer did not build from it.
- Historia procesal
- The Zagreb Commercial Court awarded HRK 197,685 for unauthorized use in P-3640/2013. A single High Commercial Court judge rejected defendants' appeal and affirmed.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Did paying the competition amount and acquiring the physical project authorize use to market the property?
- Criterio
- No under the predecessor Act and contract. Ownership of the physical item was distinct from copyright; the author retained rights beyond the agreed competition purpose.
- Fundamento decisivo
- The scope of authorized exploitation turned on the contract and then-current statutory default; a clause purporting to eliminate reliance on copyright conflicted with the former non-waiver rule.
- Límites
- Current Article 96 now presumptively grants a commissioner the exclusive exploitation rights needed for its activity unless otherwise agreed. This 2019 decision therefore cannot be copied forward as the current default. Only a non-official full-text reproduction was independently available in this review.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- Historical/contextual only for commission scope and physical-object distinction; not current exact law and not GenAI. Integración/votación: Single-judge appellate decision; no panel vote.
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Architectural competition — use beyond competition purpose
- Enlace
- Consultar fuente
- Autoridad
- High Commercial Court of the Republic of Croatia
- Tipo
- secondary_full_text_reproduction_not_promoted
- Tipo de evidencia
- secondary_full_text_reproduction_not_promoted
- Método de comprobación
- Full text read on a private legal mirror; no official document identifier was independently recovered, so it remains historical/control only.
- Localizador
- heading, undisputed facts and reasons applying former arts. 73-74, 77 and 179
- Verificación documentada
- Sí