CJEU rules that functional shapes are eligible for copyright protection, in so far as they are original works

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued its judgment in Brompton Bicycle, C-833/18, ruling that copyright protection is available to functional shapes, subject to them being original works in the sense clarified by the Court itself in earlier case law.

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