The Commission’s Proposal for a Directive on Orphan Works
On 24 May 2011, the European Commission announced a proposal for a directive on ‘certain permitted uses of orphan works’. This title perfectly conveys the scope of the proposal. Rather…
On 24 May 2011, the European Commission announced a proposal for a directive on ‘certain permitted uses of orphan works’. This title perfectly conveys the scope of the proposal. Rather…
…not least, the need to pay fair compensation to the rights holder or not. Second, the letter also states that within Europe, the only other country besides the Netherlands where…
The Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-145/10, Painer v Standard VerlagsGmbH et al., parts of which have already been discussed in an earlier blog post (here), also deals with the…
On 12 April 2011, Advocate General Trstenjak delivered her Opinion in Case C-145/10, Painer v Standard VerlagsGmbH et al., in which the ECJ has been asked to give preliminary guidance…
…of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling: ‘Where a party uploads data from a database protected by sui generis right under Directive 96/9/EC onto that party’s webserver…
…to have legal support for such endeavors, should take a closer look at the Nordic ECL model. Indeed, the ECL model is currently considered by e.g. the European Commission as…
…could use to show they would have fulfilled their obligation. More importantly, such a revision is not possible at national level without an evolution of the framework at European level….
Bad news from Denmark. According to an official press release, the Danish government has changed its position and now endorses the European Commission’s proposal to extend the term of protection…
In case C 393/09, the ECJ decided that a GUI is not a form of expression of a computer program and cannot therefore be protected by copyright as a computer…
According to the Austrian Supreme Court, the EU Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC harmonises the right of communication to the public, assuming a consistent European term of publicity. The right of communication…