“In other words, the initial communication by the copyright holder already encompassed the potential public that subsequently accessed the content via the links”
The long-awaited judgment of the…
The Court of Justice delivered its highly anticipated decision on linking. A breath of relief is allowed: linking seems to be legal. But when one looks a little closer, disturbing things begin to…
“In that case, the publication of an hyperlink is, in principle, not an autonomous communication to the public”
It is a common fact that the sex-industry, along with the arms industry, is a driving…
"The first question (territoriality) and the last question (single EU copyright title) could be considered as the alpha and the omega of the questionnaire and they are interlinked in various ways."…
"The BGH thus insinuates that framing may be a yet “unnamed right of exploitation” within the scope of Art. 15(2) Copyright Act."
On 16th May 2013 the first Senate of the German Federal Court of…
"No need to wait for the ECJ, the Court replied."
In Belgium, besides being a tort from a civil law perspective, a copyright infringement can also be a criminal offence, on the condition that it is…
The European Copyright Society, a group of prominent European scholars, today issued an opinion on the Svensson case (Case C-466/12), which is currently before the European Court of Justice. The…
