Bullfighting: Artistic work or not?
Written By
Manuel Lobato
Of counsel
Spain
I am a Of Counsel in Bird & Bird's Intellectual Property department in the Madrid office.
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The Spanish Supreme Court has declared in its Judgment of 16 February 2021 that bullfighting - hereafter, as it is called in Spain, “faena”- cannot be protected by copyright in Spain.
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