…interpretation of Article 8(3) of the InfoSoc Directive. According to this provision, Member States must ensure that copyright holders are in a position to apply for an injunction against intermediaries…
…law, particularly Article 5(2)(b) of Directive 2001/29, precludes national legislation that subjects exemption from payment of the private copying levy for producers and importers of devices and media intended for…
…in a recent Harvard Business Review article, ‘blockchain could help musicians make money again’. The debate could hardly be more topical in Europe, where online copyright reform is currently under…
A photographer took a portrait of a lawyer, who subsequently published the portrait in numerous newspaper articles. A lawsuit was initiated by an association enforcing the rights of the photographer….
…the same constitutional level such as the rights to information and freedom of expression (Article 21 Cost); (ii) the principles of “statutory reserve” (Article 23 Cost), since there is no…
…price of a hotel room should not be regarded as an ‘entrance fee’ in relation to the exclusive right of broadcasters provided for in Article 8(3) of Directive 2006/115, as…
…that it constituted a collaborative work, provided for in Article 7 of the Spanish Copyright Act, and that the rights in the work should therefore be divided equally among the…
…Court concerns the application of the temporary copy exception of article 5 par 1 of the Infosoc Directive to the reproductions on multimedia players of works obtained by streaming. The…
…on the ‘value gap’ provisions in the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (Article 13 and Recital 38) by Adj. Prof. Dr Silke…
…Supreme Court has held. In a split decision, the Court held that a feature incorporated into the design of a useful article is eligible for copyright protection only if the…
