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MPrAth 26196/1999

Copyright – Publishers related rights – Duration of protection – Reproduction of photographs – Unfair competition – The protection duration of the publishers related rights is valid for fifty years and is calculated from the last edition. Reprinting is considered to be an edition. Photographic reproduction of a book constitutes an offence of the related right of the publishers and an action of unfair competition (www.dsanet.gr). 

MPrAth 6489/1999
Industrial design is protected as intellectual creation, only if it presents a certain individuality which is a result of the intellectual work of its author and gives to it originality that distincts it from other creations already present. (DEE VOLUME 1999, p. 405). 

MPrAth 2159/1999

Contracts between musical compositions intellectual authors and AEPI on providing under remuneration the exclusive right of exploiting their work. Production and circulation of a record comprising works of the abovementioned intellectual authors without permission of AEPI, is prohibited. (DEE VOLUME 1999, p. 719). 

One-member Court of First Instance of Chios 118/1998
Collective societies. Claim of disproportional remuneration for usage of their repertoire works. (DEE VOLUME 1999, p. 593). 

MPrAth 32309/1997

Denial of unfair blocking competition due to the free distribution and to the character of the programs as works of copyright. Inapplicability of L 146 in self employing. (DEE VOLUME 1998, p. 845). 

MPrAth 23612/1997

Dictionary publication of the same kind by a different publisher. Application of the first publisher, who the intellectual property rights of the author were transferred to, about the prohibition of publishing and distribution of the new dictionary as being a copy of the original, in order to achive unfair competition. (DEE VOLUME 1998, page. 274). 

MPrAth 12729/1997

Interim measures for importing and illegal and unfair rental of videocassettes of films without Greek subtitles, the reproduction and exploitation right of which in Greece with Greek subtitles or screen translation, belongs to the applicant. Implementation of the provisions of Law 2121/93 about copyright. Complementary implementation of provisions about unfair competition. Contents of the economic right of intellectual authority. The contract for renting and lending an intellectual author’s work is a contract concerning copyright. (DEE VOLUME 1997, p. 829). 

MPrAth 3455/1997

Civil Law – Copyright – Artistic works – Fictional characters of films-. The fictional character that is created by the film producer can consist an subject-matter of copyright. Under the provisions for the protection of intellectual property, the provisions about unfair competition can be applicable, provided that the preconditions of their application are met (www.dsanet.gr). 

MPrAth 14751/1996

The publication of a musical composition in a different version from a different producer, with or without the permission of the original producer, especially when the economic right of the intellectual author has transferred to him, is observed in great extend resulting in forming of a related custom which is restrictive of the right of the intellectual author. (DEE VOLUME 1998, p. 843). 

MPrAth 25686/1995

Open-ended contract about the exploitation of a book concluded before the enforcement of Law 2121/1993. The non-signature of copies by the author does not affect the validity of the contract. The non-formal conclusion of the relevant contract is valid. Retroactive effect of Law 2121/1993. Cases under which the termination of contract by the author is abusible. (DEE VOLUME 1996, p. 490).