K. Mickevičius publishing house Briedis and textbook authors v UAB E. mokykla, civil case 3K-3-270-687/2017

Expediente y fuentes

Nombre

K. Mickevičius publishing house Briedis and textbook authors v UAB E. mokykla, civil case 3K-3-270-687/2017

Cita

K. Mickevičius publishing house Briedis and textbook authors v UAB E. mokykla, civil case 3K-3-270-687/2017

Tribunal

Supreme Court of Lithuania, Civil Division

Instancia

última instancia

Fechas

Decisión

2017-06-15

Estado

resuelto-firmeza-no-verificada

Resultado

Cassation dismissed; the 21 October 2016 appellate ruling left unchanged. Final and unappealable.

Resumen

Even informational or scientific works may be protected in their original mode of presentation. Originality is assessed in the context of the work as a whole; a part is protected when it contains elements expressing the author’s intellectual creation. The reproduced covers and structured topic lists were used substantially as a primary commercial organising device, not as subordinate quotation, and authorship attribution was required.

Antecedentes

A publisher and textbook authors challenged epratybos.lt electronic exercises linked to three textbook series. The defendant reproduced digitised covers and topic/table-of-contents entries, omitted author names and used the material as the organising basis for paid exercises. It argued that curriculum-driven topic labels were general information and any use was quotation.

Historia procesal

The first-instance court granted relief and compensation; the Court of Appeal affirmed on 21 October 2016. E. mokykla sought cassation.

Cuestión jurídica

Whether factual and curriculum-constrained textbook structures or parts could be original, how originality of parts should be assessed and whether the commercial use was quotation.

Criterio

Even informational or scientific works may be protected in their original mode of presentation. Originality is assessed in the context of the work as a whole; a part is protected when it contains elements expressing the author’s intellectual creation. The reproduced covers and structured topic lists were used substantially as a primary commercial organising device, not as subordinate quotation, and authorship attribution was required.

Fundamento decisivo

Constraints reduce but do not necessarily eliminate creative freedom. Facts and themes remain free, while the chosen sequence, formulation and presentation may embody original expression. Fragment analysis cannot ignore the architecture in which the fragment operates.

Límites

Human-authored textbook and quotation case. Protection of arrangement does not protect underlying facts, curriculum topics or every extracted fragment, and does not automatically extend to collections of generated outputs.

Relevancia

autoria-output

Referencias relacionadas

Peso del precedente

National authority on whole-work analysis, selection/arrangement and protection of parts. Non-AI, but important for compilations and edited output sets. Integración/votación: Janina Januškienė (presiding and rapporteur), Sigitas Gurevičius, Andžej Maciejevski. Three-judge panel; no numerical tally, concurrence or dissent is published.

Fuente

Referencia

K. Mickevičius publishing house Briedis and textbook authors v UAB E. mokykla, civil case 3K-3-270-687/2017

Enlace

Consultar fuente

Autoridad

Supreme Court of Lithuania, Civil Division

Tipo

final national civil copyright judgment; textbooks, arrangement, extracts and quotation; non-AI

Localizador

paras. 27–31 (work/originality/parts), 39–44 (use and attribution), 51–54 (compensation); operative part

Verificación documentada

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