The introduction in Italy of the Jobs Act for self-employed
workers (occurred with Law of May 22, 2017, no. 81, published in
the Official Gazette on June 13 and enforced the following day)
pursued the purpose of extending professionals' rights and
protections, not missing to deal with intellectual property. In
particular the Law considered, at art. 4, the hypothesis
of freelance workers creating an original contribution or an
invention when executing a work agreement, situation previously
foreseen by art. 12bis of the Italian Law on
copyrights and by art. 64 of the Italian Industrial Property Code,
in accordance to which in such cases the principal was entitled to
the rights of economic exploitation, without prejudice to the
recognition to the author or inventor of such title. On the
contrary the Legislator of 2017 stated that, in such hypothesis,
the self-employed worker is entitled to the economic exploitation
of the invention or creation, although he is acting in
