Netherlands jurisdiction report: Copyright of scale models

In the model train case, one of the subjects discussed was the copyright protection of the final product consisting of a scale model of an existing train. The court confirmed that this was not a copyright-protected work as it was an exact copy, to scale, of an existing train compartment. The characteristics of the model train closely resembled those of the original train. However, other aspects were copyright-protected: the solid works drawings and the moulds used to manufacture the scale model.