Sara Moran, Author at Kluwer Copyright Blog

Brexit, European Union, Legislative process, United Kingdom

What would a no-deal Brexit mean for copyright in the UK?

Sara Moran/January 31, 2019March 14, 2019 /Leave a comment

With the UK due to leave the EU in less than two months, we are still no closer to clarity on the basis on which this will take place. Earlier this month, Parliament voted against the deal proposed by the Prime Minister, with the deal only finding support from around 31% of members of parliament….

Case Law, Database right, European Union, Infringement

CJEU: Freistaat Bayern v. Verlag Esterbauer GmbH, C-490/14, 29 October 2015

Sara Moran/February 9, 2016 /Leave a comment

In response to a reference from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany), the CJEU ruled that geographical information extracted from a topographic map by a third party in order to produce and market another map retains, following its extraction, sufficient informative value to be classified as ‘independent materials’ of a ‘database’ within the meaning of Article 1(2) of…