…law in Article 4(1) of the InfoSoc Directive (2001/29), is found in Germany in Section 17(1) UrhG. In 2015, the BGH rendered a judgment on the right of distribution in…
…firm). In order to bring readers up to date on earlier developments, over the next few days we will be republishing in four parts an article (originally published in “Auteurs…
Let’s imagine that, in the near future, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) receives a request for a preliminary ruling referring the following question: “Must Article 17(4)…
…making a connection between arts 15 and 17. Reproduction right and art. 17 to the rescue? With hyperlinks out of the picture, the right of reproduction plays the key…
…heinous content online was approved in France on the 13th of May last year. But in June, the Constitutional Council had repealed the article requiring take down of unlawful content…
…openly licensed works. While the idea of creating repositories of Public Domain and openly licensed works is not new as such, we are proposing to use Article 17 of the…
…spiked major concerns under article 15 of the e-commerce directive (ECD). Leastways, our aim here is not to further dissect the conformity of this novel, yet somehow worrisome, practice under…
…works under French copyright law Article L.113-2 paragraph 2 of the French Intellectual Property Code (“IPC”) defines a ‘composite work’ as ‘a new work in which a pre-existing work is…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay On 17 June 2021, the CJEU delivered its judgment in C-597/19 Mircom. It held that uploading (including automatic uploading) of pieces of a file containing…
…Article 7(1) of Directive 96/9/EC shall not be exercised by public sector bodies in order to prevent the re-use of documents or to restrict re-use…” Art. 1(6) Open data directive)….
