Bullfighting: Artistic work or not?

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Manuel Lobato

Of counsel
Spain

I am a Of Counsel in Bird & Bird's Intellectual Property department in the Madrid office.

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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