…the Union regarding transparency, including: granting access to documents (Article 15 paragraph 3 TFEU); facilitating public discussion of Union’s actions (Article 11 paragraph 1 TEU); maintaining a transparent dialogue with…
…is the “UPC case”, in which the Irish High Court determined that Article 8(3) of the Information Society Directive had not been adequately transposed into Irish law. In consequence, the…
On the first week of January, media and blogs extensively reported about a Slovak ruling of the Regional Court in Bratislava, which denied copyright protection on newspaper articles. In fact,…
…one sees the acquis. In particular, the question of exceptions or limitations to copyright continues to raise some controversy. Some speakers were of the opinion that article 5 of the…
…look at the clauses contained in bilateral and mulilateral trade agreements currently negotiated by the United States. Article 4.5 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, for example, would bring the copyright term…
…protection of fixture lists by database copyright. The two questions posed to the Court are the following: 1) In Article 3(1) of Directive 96/9/EC … what is meant by “databases…
…with Article 5(5) thereof and Article 12 of the Berne Convention, particularly [in the light of the fundamental right to respect for property] to be interpreted as meaning that photographic…
…draft law first defines the category of “unavailable books” and describes how the collective management society will authorise the digital reproduction and making available of the works. Following Article 1,…
…to maintain the system of private copying levy while exempting the professionals from the liability of fair compensation, but such only for the future. Article 4 of the Bill states…
…Report by the Comité des Sages high level reflection group and the Communia Final Report and Policy Recommendations, the Commission opposes attempts to re-appropriate public domain material: according to Article…
