Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Italy) - Corte di Cassazione

Date: 02/12/2008

Subject: The Italian Court of Cassation reconstructs the Community Law, as interpreted by the Court of Justice, which influences the criminal importance of the lack of the SIAE mark, but it concludes that in the specific case it has no importance, since the accusation regards the commerce of illegitimately duplicated supports

Original language: Italian

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 17 Intellectual property - Justice - Art. 49 Principles of legality (nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege; lighter penalty)

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