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We are looking to expand our Croatian team with: Attorney at Law

Job description:

• Protection, enforcement and litigation of all types of intellectual property
• Oppositions, cancellations, revocations, court proceedings in the field of IP
• Advising domestic and international clients in all matters related to intellectual property rights and unfair competition
• IP protection & enforcement strategies
• IP portfolio management
• Multi-territorial and multi-jurisdictional IP cases

Qualifications:

• Law degree and Bar Exam
• Previous experience in IP preferred
• Language skills: excellent spoken and written English (mandatory); knowledge of an additional foreign language (preferred)
• Excellent computer skills (Microsoft Office)
• Flexibility, attention to details, exceptional precision in the execution of tasks, ability to multitask

What we offer:

• Dynamic environment
• Acquisition of new knowledge, skills, and competences
• Stimulating income
• Teamwork
• Professional career development 

If you are open to new challenges and are looking to experience a high-level working atmosphere in an international corporate environment, please submit your resume until February 7, 2023 to the following e-mail address: ivanas@zm-p.com.

Only selected candidates will be contacted.

The future of creativity was in the focus of the 10th MAKK Conference 2022 held in Zagreb, Croatia and organized by the Croatian Composers’ Society and the Croatian Copyright Society.

The MAKK International Authors’ / Creators’ Conference is a meeting point for creative industries, where relevant and current topics are discussed on interactive and insightful panels during the span of two days. Panellists are some of renowned international and regional creators and experts in the field, such as Björn Ulvaeus, Skye Edwards, Andy Wright, as well as Ceco Gaković, Aleksandra Kovač, Tinkara Kovač, Tonči Huljić, Darko Rundek, Dino Merlin, Momčilo Bajagić Bajaga, Husein Hasanefendić Hus, Miroslav Škoro, Zoran Predin, etc.

First day of the conference is always dedicated to the representatives of the creative industries like composers, performers, singers, whilst the second day focuses on legal issues regarding copyright and related rights.

10^th MAKK Conference was a platform for some interesting legal topics.

Prof. dr. sc. Igor Gliha from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb share his thoughts on provisions of the new Copyright and Related Rights Act (OG No. 111/2021) that came into force on October 22, 2021 (please see: zakon_autor_2021_ENG.pdf (dziv.hr)), particularly in relation to the copyrighted work created during the course of employment – Article 100 of the new Act.

The following topics were also discussed:

• relationship between copyright and the Directive (EU) 2019/1024 on open data and the re-use of public sector information;
• relationship between GDPR and copyright;
• copyright created by an employee (work made for hire)
• material and legal shortcomings of the digital content and copyright.

Namely, under the provisions of the previous Copyright and Related Rights Act, employer could not acquire economic copyrights over the exploitation of a copyrighted work created during the course of employment – the author himself detained all the rights over his copyright work. The new Act has now changed that in favour of the employer.

We share the opinion that the new Copyright and Related Rights Act implemented important provisions for the protection of author’s and performer’s rights (including the EU Copyright Directive – Directive (EU) 2019/790 of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market) the previous Copyright and Related Rights Act protected the authors better, particularly in relation to a copyrighted work created during the course of employment.

Another interesting panel discussion concerned “Buyout and copyright” in relation to actors, musicians and performers. Croatian actors presented a situation in which they are all forced to sign buyout contracts with the producers, whereby their performer’s rights are transferred to the producer entirely and therefore they do not get any further compensation for any future exploitation of their performance (reruns or further broadcasting on cable or VOD TV).

Obviously, new global trend wherein the employer’s rights supersede those of the employee when copyright work is concerned, has now arrived to Croatia as well.

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The importance of this conference has been confirmed once again, as this is one of a kind international authors’ / creators’ conference in the whole region. MAKK Conference is definitely dedicated to increasing knowledge on authorship and copyright, and keeping up with interesting trends within cultural and creative industries.

Author: Vanja Carantan, Senior Counsel / Attorney at Law

Photo credit: Samir Cerić Kovačević / Vedran Metelko

This article is to be considered exclusively informative, with no intention to provide legal advice. If you should need additional information, please contact us directly.

Croatian Customs Authorities organized a training session in Split, Croatia, a two-day seminar “Identifying Counterfeits” held from September 29 to September 30, 2022.

The training was organized for customs officers under the jurisdiction of the Regional Customs Office Split and intended for officers engaged in both internal market and border procedures. The event was a presentation-type training with lectures on Trademarks and Customs procedures concerning counterfeit goods held by the Customs Officials. The aim of the training session was to improve the implementation of customs measures in the enforcement of intellectual property rights and to provide useful information on identifying counterfeit goods. Seventeen presentations on identifying counterfeits in total were held over two days by the Right-Holders, while the Customs Authorities Senior Advisors, Ms Ines Zivcic and Mr Ninoslav Babic held lectures related to Customs procedures and specifics of trademarks.

Ivana Knezevic, Head of ZMP Croatia, represented seven brands from ZMP’s Client roster, from the automobile, cosmetic, electronic and fashion industries. We are very pleased the event generated a lot of interest and are proud that our Clients take care of their brands and are interested in the fight against counterfeits!

Special thanks go to the organizers of the event, Mr Ninoslav Babic, Senior Advisor, for the first in-person event since 2019, and for welcoming us so warmly.

The sixth conference “Intellectual Property and the Internet”, organized by the Foundation “Registry of the National Internet Domain of Serbia” (RNIDS) and the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, was held on June 14, 2022, in the Conference Hall of the Faculty of Law.

The conference was opened by prof. Dr. Dusan Popovic, the President of the Organizing Committee and full professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, and the Dean of the Faculty of Law UB, prof. Dr. Zoran Mirkovic.

Dr. Eleonora Rossati, professor at the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University, and the director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law was a keynote speaker. She discussed on the topic “Copyright Exceptions on the Internet: An EU Perspective”.

Our colleague Dr. Mina Jovanovic had the opportunity to contribute with her paper on “Trademark rights and non-fungible tokens (NFT)”.

The event opened up some hot topics, including: can a trademark as a right (property) be the subject of tokenization (NFT), what is the copyright view of the GIF format, what is the copyright definition of streaming, and whether goods and services with a registered trademark in the physical world can enjoy trademark protection in virtual reality? It is clear that intellectual property is becoming more and more important in the context of the Internet, is about to gain even more importance in the future.

The whole conference was streamed alive and you can find it on RNIDS YouTube Channel.