Brussels, 01/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - In Ruling C-168/09 issued on 27 January 2011, the European Court of Justice says that Italian law withdrawing copyright protection from designs and models already registered in member state but which had fallen into the public domain before the copyright legislation came into force, although otherwise meeting the criteria for benefitting from copyright protection, runs counter to EU law. The Court of Justice states that copyright applies in respect of...