…major European institute, plus 15 members. The idea of this society is exactly to counteract the drawbacks of the European legislative process, by providing a forum for, and a voice…
The New Year’s festivities are just behind us and with these the celebrations around Public Domain Day 2012 that took place in different cities in and outside Europe (Warsaw, Zurich,…
On May 22 of this year Directive 2001/29/EC was exactly 10 years old – a birthday largely gone unnoticed. The ‘Copyright Directive’ or ‘Information Society Directive’ (for experts: ‘InfoSoc Directive’)…
Data creation, intellectual creation and creativity in the world of databases: The Advocate’s General Opinion in the Football Dataco Ltd v. Yahoo! Uk Limited Case and its potential impact in…
…the use of photos, in what was a horror cover story throughout Europe in the summer of 2006. The person portrayed – a girl photographed at a nursery by a…
…monopoly of collective rights management organisations (CMOs). This amendment might seem surprising after the infringement procedure launched by the European Commission in this question against Hungary appeared to have come…
…2011. The Recommendation acknowledges the importance of digitisation for making Europe’s cultural productions more widely available and thereby boosting the growth of Europe’s creative industries. It accordingly challenges Member States…
…scepticism is working its way into EU institutions. First there was the Resolution on the EU-US Summit of 28 November 2011, adopted by the European Parliament on 17 November 2011….
…BRalpha on 7 September 2009 and is also available on DVD. The defendant also granted the VoD rights to Movieeurope.com. The defendant also made the trailer available on the Internet…
In its groundbreaking judgment of 4 October 2011 the Court of Justice of the European Union has essentially legalized the import, sale and use of foreign satellite television decoder cards….
