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Rodila nas majka ispod Bilogore — automatic protection and rebuttable authorship evidence
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Rodila nas majka ispod Bilogore — automatic protection and rebuttable authorship evidence
- Cita
- Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, U-III-2456/2004, 5 May 2005, NN 65/2005
- record kind
- judicial_decision
- Tribunal
- Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia
- Instancia
- constitutional court
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2005-05-05
- Publicación
- 2005-05-25
- Estado
- constitutional complaint rejected; published official decision
- Resultado
- Constitutional complaint rejected; the ordinary-court awards and findings remained effective.
- Resumen
- Copyright arises through creation without registration. Naming and registration data can support a rebuttable presumption of authorship but do not constitute the right. The ordinary courts' evidence assessment was not constitutionally arbitrary.
- Antecedentes
- The defendants placed the song 'Rodila nas majka ispod Bilogore' on cassette and CD as a traditional work without naming M.K. and N.M.M. The ordinary courts found the two claimants to be authors and awarded each HRK 20,000 for moral harm plus HRK 222.92 economic loss.
- Historia procesal
- After ordinary civil judgments, the publisher and related defendants filed a constitutional complaint alleging arbitrary evaluation of evidence and violation of property and fair-trial rights. The Constitutional Court reviewed the record and rejected the complaint.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Did the absence of constitutive registration defeat authorship, and what evidentiary weight could names and registration-like data carry?
- Criterio
- Copyright arises through creation without registration. Naming and registration data can support a rebuttable presumption of authorship but do not constitute the right. The ordinary courts' evidence assessment was not constitutionally arbitrary.
- Fundamento decisivo
- The predecessor statute tied authorship and protection to creation. The court treated documentary name/registration information as evidence capable of rebuttal and accepted the ordinary courts' corroborated finding of authorship.
- Límites
- Applied a predecessor statute and did not involve AI, a state copyright registry or a substantive registration examination. Its automatic-protection/evidentiary distinction is corroborated by current Article 19(2) and DZIV guidance.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- Official Constitutional Court application, strong on the constitutional acceptability of automatic protection and rebuttable proof; not an AI merits precedent. Integración/votación: The official Gazette text expressly records a unanimous decision.
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Rodila nas majka ispod Bilogore — automatic protection and rebuttable authorship evidence
- Enlace
- Consultar fuente
- Autoridad
- Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia
- Tipo
- primary_official_constitutional_full_text
- Tipo de evidencia
- primary_official_constitutional_full_text
- Método de comprobación
- Official Narodne novine full text downloaded and read.
- Localizador
- official disposition and reasons on former Act Article 8, creation without registration, rebuttable presumption and evidence
- Verificación documentada
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