AG Spielmann advises CJEU to rule that a derivative work may be original and protection could also stem from efforts to reconstruct missing parts in someone else’s work

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The critical edition at issue in the Romanian background proceedingsInternational copyright law (Article 2(3) of the Berne Convention) mandates the protection of “[t]ranslations, adaptations, arrangements of music and other alterations of a literary or artistic work” as “original works without prejudice to the copyright in the original work.”In the EU, the Court of Justice of the European Union (
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