When does copyright protection arise in works of applied art and industrial models and designs? A new CJEU reference

What is the standard of originality for copyright in works of applied art, and industrial models and designs? Is there an EU rule or can Member States decide to set their own threshold to protection?This, in a nutshell, is the very interesting and potentially controversial issue that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has just been asked to address in a brand-new reference from Portugal, ie Cofemel, C-683/17.The application of the Portoguese Supreme Court is not yet available on the Curia website, but these are the questions referred (via @titorendas):At this stage I am not aware of the nature of the Portuguese litigation but – from the way in which the questions are formulated – it would appear that:(1) The reference is not really about EU law as such, but rather CJEU's interpretation of EU law ("the CJEU's interpretation"). (2) This suggests that the reference may be about whether and to what extent the string of CJEU…

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