(CNN)– Birkenstocks are not art, they are just shoes. A German court rejected the sandal company’s effort to copyright four ...

The shoe manufacturer claimed its sandals “are copyright-protected works of applied art” that may not be imitated in a ...

The highest court in Germany recently handed down a ruling that Birkenstocks are not a “work of art.” It was in a case filed ...

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The development came in a case filed by Birkenstock in which it had argued that its footwear could be classified as art and ...