Etablissement des journaux El Anwar et El Ousboua El Mousawar v. Abdelhamid Slama

Expediente y fuentes

Nombre

Etablissement des journaux El Anwar et El Ousboua El Mousawar v. Abdelhamid Slama

Cita

Cour d'appel de Tunis, arrêt n° 35471 du 12 février 1997, inédit; confirmation du TPI Tunis du 10 janvier 1996

Tribunal

Cour d'appel de Tunis

Instancia

appellate civil court

Fechas

Decisión

1997-02-12

Estado

unpublished appellate judgment; identified and quoted in Tunisian academic teaching materials; no primary judgment text located

Resultado

First-instance liability was confirmed in relevant part and moral prejudice recognized. The amount and complete appellate dispositif were not available and are not inferred.

Resumen

The underlying rules were not appropriable, but the author's original historical/scientific exposition and distinctive expression remained protected; reproducing extracts without title or author violated the right of paternity and caused moral harm.

Antecedentes

The newspapers El Anwar and El Ousboua El Mousawar reproduced extracts from Abdelhamid Slama's book across multiple issues without identifying the book or its author. The available academic account also reports a dispute over whether the work was original because it treated football rules.

Historia procesal

Slama prevailed in the Tunis first-instance court on 1996-01-10. The newspapers appealed. Appellate decision no. 35471 of 1997-02-12 confirmed liability at least for the protected portions and moral-right violation. The full judgment and exact remedial figures were not published in the located sources.

Cuestión jurídica

Whether a work explaining pre-existing football rules could contain protected original expression and whether unattributed serial reproduction violated Slama's rights.

Criterio

The underlying rules were not appropriable, but the author's original historical/scientific exposition and distinctive expression remained protected; reproducing extracts without title or author violated the right of paternity and caused moral harm.

Fundamento decisivo

Unprotected facts or rules and protected human expression must be separated; originality may lie in personal exposition, arrangement and style, and reproduction without attribution can violate moral rights.

Límites

No primary judgment image or official full-text report was located; available accounts are academic teaching and research materials. This is not a GenAI case, and the precise original passages, full remedy and any dissent are unavailable.

Relevancia

doctrina-general

Referencias relacionadas

Peso del precedente

Persuasive appellate national authority under the current 1994 Act, but operational weight is reduced because the decision is unpublished and only secondary quotations were publicly located. Integración/votación: Coram, panel member names and voting information were not published in the located accounts; the case is identified as an unpublished appellate judgment.

Fuente

Referencia

Etablissement des journaux El Anwar et El Ousboua El Mousawar v. Abdelhamid Slama

Enlace

Consultar fuente

Autoridad

Tunisian academic teaching material quoting the unpublished judgment

Tipo

secondary academic report; primary judgment unavailable

Fecha de comprobación

2026-08-30

Localizador

academic course footnote identifying CA Tunis no. 35471, 1997-02-12, and quoted passage on moral prejudice; source search excerpt and document pp 7-8; complete primary pinpoint unavailable

Verificación documentada

Sí