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Case Law, Germany, Infringement, Jurisdiction, Liability, Making available (right of)

Vorschaubilder II. The second case on image search thumbnails

John Weitzmann (iRights.info)/June 5, 2012May 10, 2023 /Leave a comment

The German Federal Court of Justice rejects liability for image search thumbnails even if they are indexed on websites showing the images without permission as long as other websites did so with the rights holder’s consent. The first landmark case involving thumbnail previews of Google’s image search function in Germany (Vorschaubilder I, 2010) had dealt…

Enforcement, Germany, Infringement, Jurisdiction, Netherlands, Private copying, Remuneration (equitable), Reproduction (right of)

Experience concerning new restrictions of the private copying rule from the German perspective – a complimentary comment on the Blog Post: And the private copy war continues: news from the Dutch front! (by Lucie Guibault)

Till Kreutzer (iRights.info)/May 25, 2011May 10, 2023 /Leave a comment

As reported by the Dutch commentator Lucie Guibault in her recent Blogpost the Dutch government (in the person of the secretary of state, Fred Teeven) plans to restrict the private copying limitation. Downloads from “obviously illegal sources” shall be declared unlawful. In Germany such a rule exists already, implemented in the course of the first…