Brands Update. February 2015

MEDIA BRANDS: Inspector Freimut Failed to Pass Inspection by the Revizor

The recent ruling of the commercial court in the dispute between two Ukrainian TV channels has formed an important practice of protection of the rights to media projects (in this case, a reality show in which the show presenter checks the quality of services provided by the establishments of service sector, specifically, of HoReCa industry). Actually, the ruling establishes the criteria for media project copyright protection and specifies the criteria by which not copyrightable ideas and concepts of such media projects may be distinguished from the use of the form of the work (its elements), the rights to which belong to another person.