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The removal of SIAE’s repertoire from Meta’s social networks
“This song is currently unavailable” or “The audio track in your reel is no longer available. You can…
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2021 saw a very active German Bundesgerichtshof (“BGH” - Federal Supreme Court) in the area of copyright law. This article covers the most relevant…
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1. Introduction
Last week, a preliminary hearing took place before the European Court of Justice (CJEU), in a case dealing with the implementation of the…
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Welcome to the fourth (and last) trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law (even though slightly overdue)! While in the last three months of 2022 the CJEU…
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Much has been said about the press publishers’ right, introduced by Article 15 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). Aimed at ensuring remuneration…
Judgment nº208/2021 of Madrid Commercial Court nº16 (December 20th, 2021)
Context and facts
This case concerns a dispute between the collecting management organisation CEDRO[1] and GOOGLE DISCOVER…
A conference jointly organized by the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus and the H2020 project reCreating Europe - Nicosia, 31 October – 1 November 2022
The University of Cyprus,…
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As a matter of principle, the exercise of the exclusive rights under copyright is the author’s individual prerogative: it is the author who decides whether they wish…
Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here, here and here.
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