Croacia / Doctrina supranacional
Brompton Bicycle — technical constraints and creative freedom
Doctrina supranacional. La inclusión en esta ficha no convierte una referencia extranjera en una decisión nacional. Se conserva el estado y el alcance de la fuente.
Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Brompton Bicycle — technical constraints and creative freedom
- Cita
- C-833/18, Brompton Bicycle, EU:C:2020:461
- record kind
- judicial_decision
- Tribunal
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- Instancia
- Fifth Chamber
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2020-06-11
- Estado
- final preliminary ruling
- Resultado
- Preliminary questions answered; application and final disposition returned to the referring national court.
- Resumen
- Protection is possible only insofar as technical considerations did not leave the author unable to reflect personality through free and creative choices.
- Antecedentes
- A folding bicycle shape was claimed as a copyright work despite technical-functional constraints.
- Historia procesal
- National litigation generated a preliminary reference; the CJEU answered the referred EU-law questions in the cited judgment.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Can technically dictated subject matter be original?
- Criterio
- Protection is possible only insofar as technical considerations did not leave the author unable to reflect personality through free and creative choices.
- Fundamento decisivo
- Intention matters only as evidence of expressed choice; it cannot overcome expression wholly dictated by function.
- Límites
- No GenAI case; analogy must be tied to actual absence or presence of human expressive freedom.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- Binding interpretation of harmonized EU law for Croatian courts within the interpreted field; supranational, not Croatian national case law. Integración/votación: Fifth Chamber; CJEU judgments publish no individual dissent.
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Brompton Bicycle — technical constraints and creative freedom
- Enlace
- Consultar fuente
- Autoridad
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- Tipo
- primary_supranational_full_judgment
- Tipo de evidencia
- primary_supranational_full_judgment
- Método de comprobación
- Official EUR-Lex judgment and cited paragraphs checked.
- Localizador
- paras. 22-27 and 34
- Verificación documentada
- Sí