Copyright is not an exact science, it depends on the particular
features of the author's work, we all know that. However, some
works are more difficult to judge than others, and the opinion
about its legal protection may change from our court to
another.
Here we have an example of that. The Spanish company Euro depot,
S.A., part of Kingfisher Group, operating "Brico Depot"
stores (DIY and renovate products) brought a lawsuit in 2007
against its competitor Bricolaje Bricoman, S.L. running also DIY
stores under the trademark "Bricomart". The conflict
related to one of the commercial catalogues published monthly by
Brico Depot, which, in its opinion, was plagiarized by Bricomart
because the structure, selection of contents, pictures and texts
were very similar in both leaflets, and therefore this behaviour
should be considered a copyright violation, and also an unfair
competition act.
