{"id":3358,"date":"2017-04-19T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.todanelo.com\/article\/bullfighting-might-be-art-its-not-copyrightable\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:30:00","slug":"bullfighting-might-be-art-its-not-copyrightable","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.todanelo.com\/fr\/articles\/bullfighting-might-be-art-its-not-copyrightable\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullfighting might be an \u201cart\u201d, but it\u2019s not copyrightable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interestingly, a bullfighter has tried to protect as a work of authorship one of ones his moves. The torero<\/em> filed an application before the Copyright Office to register a specific move of his, and although protection is not conditional upon compliance with any formality (principle of \u201cautomatic protection\u201d of the Berne Convention signed by Spain), the purpose of the registration was to pass the filter of the Copyright Office and achieve some sort of validity (indeed, the Office does run some basic analysis regarding the legal requirements for copyright protection).<\/p>\n

As in the \u201cfootball cases\u201d in the USA, the Copyright Office and subsequently, the Commercial Court, have turned down such pretension.<\/span><\/p>\n

In short; a bullfighter move, and regardless of its aesthetics and style, is limited by many factors beyond the author\u2019s intellectual creation and will; first of all, and for obvious reasons, the intervention of the bull a non-human component of the play, but also the bullfighting regulations as well as many other accidental events out of control of the \u201cauthor\u201d play an important role on the final performance of the bullfighter, despite his \u201coriginal\u201d intention on how a particular move should be performed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, the intellectual creation that the author might have in mind it\u2019s not directly translated into a specific material expression, there\u2019s limited choice on the torero side and is indeed rather functional indeed, the Court argued, as oppose, for example, to choreography.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, this case is an interesting opportunity to discuss the fundamental and yet quite overlooked concept of the subject matter of copyright.<\/span><\/p>\n

The full text here of the Court\u2019s decision (in Spanish)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

IP & IT Area<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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