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Alalääkkölä v Palmer: New Zealand Supreme Court confirms copyright is relationship property

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by Martina Bulkov from Pixabay In March 2025 the New Zealand Supreme Court confirmed that copyright is relationship property, to be divided accordingly when a qualifying relationship ends. It distinguished between economic rights (which are assignable) and moral rights (which are not assignable).