Ferdinand Graf and Marija Križanac are the authors of the latest volume of the RFG-series (a publication series on law and finance for Austrian municipalities) which was recently published by MANZ (a renowned legal publishing house in Austria).

In a welcome development of Austrian copyright law, the Supreme Court recently ruled that a combination of works by two artists does not constitute a joint work if it can be separated, even if the works involved were created for the sole purpose of being combined as a jointly planned contribution. Strong indicators of whether parts of a work are separable are the individual marketability and possible depreciation of the separated parts.

The Insolvency Code was recently amended in response to the introduction of the EU Insolvency Regulation, creating – for the first time – specific rules for the insolvency of corporate groups in Austria.