“Before finalising its decision however, it is seeking the CJEU's input on whether end users, who view web-pages on their computers without downloading or printing them, are committing infringements…
How the Polish broadcasting law on must-carry and must-offer makes broadcasters choose whether to infringe copyright and licensing contracts or the Polish Broadcasting Act.
This post is about a rare…
"When it is established or not contradicted that a reasonable remuneration has been offered, additional circumstances will be necessary in order to conclude that publication is indeed illegitimate."…
In a relatively recent judgement in a criminal case, the Supreme Court of Estonia ruled that that the terms 'trade scale' and 'commercial scale' are not synonymous. The concept 'commercial scale'…
In a recent judgment, following the preliminary Infopaq-rulings of the European Court of Justice, the Danish Supreme Court ruled that extracts of newspaper articles comprising no more than 11 words…
"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 viewer will not experience it as real and will even consider it to be weird, amateurish or even ridiculous."
In a case about the use of the ‘house style’ of the Dutch police, the summary…
“The law does not allow for additional protection of the maker of a work against so-called slavish imitation of a style or of elements of style.”
Supreme Court of the Netherlands, 29 March 2013 …
Last week, the European Court of Justice ruled in a preliminary ruling that live streaming of television channels is a 'communication to the public' within the meaning of the EU Copyright Directive …
