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Feature article
Copyright & Relationship Property. Landmark Case in NZ
Introduction
In its March 2025 Judgment in Alalääkkölä v Palmer [2025] NZSC 9, the Supreme Court dealt with an interesting and novel point about relationship property and copyright.
It has been described as a landmark case in new Zealand for issues of this type, and that it is a collision of highly specialised areas of the law - relationship property and copyright.
The Facts
The couple in this case were married for 20 years. The wife was an artist, the husband a photographer. The wife is...
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