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Supreme Court Judgment 7121/2552 — paired-dancers bas-relief
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Supreme Court Judgment 7121/2552 — paired-dancers bas-relief
- Cita
- ฎีกา 7121/2552
- Tribunal
- Supreme Court of Thailand, Intellectual Property division
- Instancia
- última instancia
- Fechas
- year
- 2009
- Estado
- year-only-reporter
- Resultado
- Conviction reversed; defendant acquitted.
- Resumen
- Reasonable doubt about independent creation defeated the criminal copyright charge; effort spent copying or adapting was not creative effort that generated copyright.
- Antecedentes
- The complainant claimed copyright in a terracotta bas-relief of paired dancers and asserted that she drew and modelled it. Evidence showed a closely corresponding Bayon-temple sculpture and common Thai/Khmer motifs, creating doubt that most or all of her template had been copied from public-domain sources with only minor additions.
- Historia procesal
- The public prosecutor charged infringement; the alleged owner joined as co-plaintiff. The Central IP and International Trade Court convicted, imposing three months and THB 60,000, imprisonment suspended for one year. The defendant appealed and the Supreme Court reversed and acquitted.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that the claimant's sculpture resulted from her own originating creation rather than copying public-domain forms.
- Criterio
- Reasonable doubt about independent creation defeated the criminal copyright charge; effort spent copying or adapting was not creative effort that generated copyright.
- Fundamento decisivo
- Effort in copying or trivial adaptation is not the self-originating creative undertaking required for copyright, and criminal subsistence must be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
- Límites
- The reasonable-doubt standard and public-domain copying facts are central. It is not a universal minimum-effort test for civil cases or an AI authorship rule.
- Relevancia
- doctrina-general
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- Final Supreme Court criminal authority; strong but context-sensitive guidance on creation versus reproduction. Integración/votación: Three-judge panel: Boonrod Tanprasert, Polrat Pratumtan and Ratan Kongkaew (Thai transliteration); no individual vote/separate opinion published.
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- Referencia
- Supreme Court Judgment 7121/2552 — paired-dancers bas-relief
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- Tipo
- national criminal originality/copying analogue; not an AI case
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