The Supreme Court in a judgment of 8 November 1932, case file II. 1K. 1092/32, published in Zb. Orz. 1933/I poz. 7., ruled that a collection of posters or advertisements, calendars, catalogues, railway timetables, cookbooks, patterns, forms – all may be subject to copyright law, if the form of their design, layout or explanations have independent and individual character.

See also “Polish regulations on copyright” and “Polish case law on copyright“.

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