Do most US authors still only enjoy a copyright term of life plus 50 in the EU?
…origin for purposes of Article 7(1) of the EU Directives and Article 7(8) of the Berne Convention is Canada, and the term of protection the work will get in the…
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EU: Does Innoweb hinder innovation on the web?
…of the content of its database (article 7(2)(b) of Directive 96/9). According to the CJEU, GasPedaal is “depriving him of revenue which should have enabled him to redeem the cost…
The Netherlands: a hyperlink to unfindable files
…location on the internet, doesn’t really differ from referring in a footnote in book or an article to another work that is already published. In that case, the publication of…
Italy: Gay Pride photo doesn’t infringe portrait rights
…The Italian Supreme Court rules that, according to Article 97 of the Italian Copyright Act, the public displaying of the portrait of a person is not an infringement of his…
European Copyright Law : Quo vadis? The European Commission asks for your opinion
…class a multimedia work comprising of a list with links to newspaper articles, photographs, videos and of other copyright protected content for the purpose of illustration for teaching. Another intriguing…
Open Access to Scientific Articles: Comparing Italian with German law
…road, authors publish their articles in OA journals that provide free and immediate OA to all articles. Authors that choose the green OA road, publish in “traditional” journals and, upon…
Jurisdiction in EU copyright cases: accessibility of a website is a criterion
“For the ECJ, in the meaning of Article 5(3) of the Regulation 44/2001, a harmful event may arise from the possibility of obtaining a reproduction of a work from an…
Time limitation in French copyright infringement cases
…Intellectual Property Code provides that civil proceedings for infringement for designs and models (article L.521-3), patents (article L.615-8) and trade marks (article L.716-5) shall be barred after 3 years, but…
France: a digital file in iTunes is a phonogram
…the proceedings. SPEDIDAM argued that online distribution of sound recordings by iTunes is submitted, under article L.212-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code, to the prior authorisation of the performers…
German copyright reform: the first part of the third basket
…definition of press products, the articles provides, translates to “the editorial-technical fixation of journalistic contributions as part of an periodic medium which is in view of the circumstances mainly typical…