Société tunisienne de l'édition v. Mohamed Karrou and Société tunisienne de diffusion

Expediente y fuentes

Nombre

Société tunisienne de l'édition v. Mohamed Karrou and Société tunisienne de diffusion

Cita

Tribunal de première instance de Tunis, affaire n° 4006, jugement inédit du 29 décembre 1975

Tribunal

Tribunal de première instance de Tunis

Instancia

first-instance civil court

Fechas

Decisión

1975-12-29

Estado

unpublished judgment; detailed institutional report by WIPO

Resultado

All requested destruction, payment and moral-damage claims were dismissed.

Resumen

The research and verification were not an original personal creation and created no copyright; the contractual bases also failed.

Antecedentes

The publishing company claimed contracts with the heirs of poet Abou Kacem Echebbi concerning the collection Les Chansons de la vie. It asserted that verifying the complete original poem text and researching poem dates and circumstances conferred copyright. Mohamed Karrou's Abou Kacem Echebbi, sa vie, ses poèmes, published by the Société tunisienne de diffusion, contained most poems in the claimed collection.

Historia procesal

The publisher sought destruction of all copies, the value of all printed copies and 5,000 dinars for moral harm. The first-instance court rejected the claims. The judgment was unpublished; the located WIPO report identifies docket and date but no appeal.

Cuestión jurídica

Whether textual verification and research into dates and circumstances of pre-existing poems constituted an original and personal creation capable of copyright, and whether the claimed publishing contracts were opposable.

Criterio

The research and verification were not an original personal creation and created no copyright; the contractual bases also failed.

Fundamento decisivo

Labor, verification and factual research, without original personal expression, do not themselves generate copyright.

Límites

First-instance, unpublished, under the repealed 1966 Act; the report is an institutional secondary account rather than a primary judgment image; much of the disposition also rested on contract formalities.

Relevancia

doctrina-general

Referencias relacionadas

Peso del precedente

Persuasive national first-instance analogy only, weakened by repeal of the governing Act and absence of the primary judgment text. Integración/votación: Coram, individual judge names and voting information were not published; the decision is identified as an unpublished first-instance judgment.

Fuente

Referencia

Société tunisienne de l'édition v. Mohamed Karrou and Société tunisienne de diffusion

Enlace

Consultar fuente

Autoridad

World Intellectual Property Organization

Tipo

WIPO institutional case report; primary judgment unpublished

Fecha de comprobación

2026-08-30

Localizador

Le Droit d'auteur, June 1984, printed p 262; PDF p 23; docket corroboration in April 1988, printed p 248, footnote 29

Verificación documentada

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