By Reto M. Hilty (auth.), Professor Dr. Reto M. Hilty, Dr. Frauke Henning-Bodewig (eds.)
Unfair festival legislations is anxious with reasonable play in trade. it truly is in most cases considered as priceless – including antitrust legislations – so that it will steer festival alongside an orderly path, and thereby to give a contribution to selling an effective industry process that serves the pursuits of all members. however the importance of unfair festival legislation varies from one kingdom to a different. while in a few international locations, resembling Germany, it's noticeable as probably the most powerful advertisement legislation, in different international locations, equivalent to the uk, it leads particularly a shadowy life. From the outset, this discrepancy laid within the ameliorations in nationwide felony s- tems. when these continental ecu international locations that possessed a written civil legislations whilst situations of unfair festival emerged, kind of effectively tried to include them within the latest tort legislations approach, safety within the universal legislations international locations used to be limited to a few narrowly outlined torts, specifically “passing off”. At this level one of many few shared convictions was once, that the safety of “honest marketers” was once at factor; in this foundation, in 1900, the single legislation on the int- bis nationwide point before used to be enacted, paintings. 10 of the Paris Convention.
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With regard to higher-ranking aspects such as legal certainty general clauses as such do not suffice, however. Against this background, the legal protection of the competitor can only become a practicable component of competition law as a whole, if already the legislator – firstly the European, and based upon its specifications subsequently also the national legislator – covers the relevant constellations in the form of concrete norms. g. g. ; by the same author, supra note 2 (1991-1992), at 857.
Failing correction of such market failure could lead to a distortion of competition in a way that the investments desired would not be made in the long run. From this perspective, however, it can hardly be ignored that the duration of the protection offered, at least in many constellations, widely exceeds what, from an economic perspective with a view to a potential market failure, is necessary. g. ), “Urheberrecht, Kommentar” Copyright Law before Sec. 73 et seq. N 4 (performers) (2nd ed. 1999); VOGEL, ibidem, Copyright Law 81 N 3 (organisers) and Copyright Law 85 N 2 (producers of phonograms); VOGEL & V.
34 Reto M. Hilty enters the wide field of moralising judgemental decisions. 80 The stated law is based upon the appreciation that “there has been qualitatively and/or quantitatively a substantial investment in either the obtaining, verification or presentation of the contents [of the database]” (Art. 7 Para. 81 It is clear from the legal approach of protection of the Directive that the result of the investment in this case does not constitute something extraordinary, but may be generated by anybody applying comparable criteria who makes a corresponding investment; otherwise, the database would constitute an individual creation and therefore enjoy protection by copyright law (Art.