…rights, including the protection of copyright and the economic interests deriving from it, falls within the scope of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 of the European Convention on Human…
…(“Soulier and Doke”) on 7th July 2016. The requirement for the prior, express consent of the author has not yet been expressly stated in EU law in relation to articles…
…law was found to be an implementation of Article 11 of the Enforcement Directive (Directive 2004/48). As a result, a request for a preliminary ruling was submitted to the CJEU…
…paper. Concise European Copyright Law is an article-by-article commentary on all ten EU directives and the relevant international treaties in the field of copyright and neighbouring (related) rights. It provides…
…working in the European Union will be severely affected. Following the confusion about the UK government’s resistance to immediately invoke Article 50 TEU, there are a number of important questions…
…digital environment. Furthermore, the Court has been asked to clarify whether the derogation from the public lending right which is established in Article 6 (1) of the Rental and Lending…
In response to a reference from the Spanish Supreme Court, the CJEU held that Article 5(2)(b) of Directive 2001/29/EC must be interpreted as precluding a scheme for fair compensation for…
…within the meaning of both Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/29 and Article 8(2) of Directive 2006/115, and in accordance with the same interpretive criteria. The CJEU further held that those…
…applies the system of fair compensation regulated in Article 5(2)(b) of Directive 2001/29/EC does fall within “matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict” within the meaning of Article 5(3) of…
…had to apply without prejudice to the Rental Directive unless otherwise provided, which it did not. The CJEU noted that the articles of the two directives in question pursue different…
