Authorship by deletion
…new and quite interesting option. You can namely become a co-author if you delete a few sentences from a scientific article, sentences you believe are factually incorrect. The court’s decision…
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WIPO International Performer’s Right’s Treaty revived
…a draft WIPO Treaty on performers’ rights which largely reflected the provisions of the WPPT made noteworthy progress. Indeed, provisional agreement on 19 of the 20 articles under negotiation was…
Breach of copyright licence: Precisions of the Belgian Supreme Court on cease and desist actions
…desist injunction against the TV company. Some relevant paragraphs of the decision can be translated and summarized as follows: – A cease and desist action grounded on article 87, §1…
What is a “work”? Apparently only fine art, Portuguese Appeals Court rules
…not the Copyright Code. According to Article 496 paragraph 1 of the Civil Code, only grave damages are eligible for compensation. In this case, the artist’s damages did not qualify…
Dutch press exception revisited!
…is possible under paragraph 2 of article 15 of the Act. The Court observes that article 15 of the Act must be interpreted in the light of the Berne Convention…
Belgium, Case Law, Collective management, Exceptions and Limitations, Legislative process, Remuneration (equitable)
Belgium: the problem child of the lending right?
…staat”). According to VEWA, this remuneration was far from being “equitable”. The state council noted that article 5(1) of the Directive simply provides for a “remuneration” contrary to its article…
“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet” (Mark Twain)?
…for collective management; the codification of the acquis communautaire in a European Copyright Code; the feasibility of creating an optional “unitary” copyright title on the basis of Article 118 of…
ECJ: Private copying levies II-the Stichting de Thuiskopie v. Opus Supplies Deutschland GmbH case
…for a preliminary ruling: ‘(1) Does Directive 2001/29, in particular Article 5(2)(b) and (5) thereof, provide any assistance in determining who should be regarded under national law as owing the…
Google Suggest: no copyright liability for suggesting words like Torrent, Megaupload and Rapidshare
…not invoke the liability of Google in application of Article 6 of the Law on Confidence in the Digital Economy (implementing the e-Commerce Directive) but relied rather on Article L….
A wolf in sheep’s clothing: the new Portuguese proposal on private copying levies
…compatibility of this proposal with Creative Commons licenses, both in national and international fora. All that ado is about article 5 of the proposal, which reads something like “The equitable…