The latest large-scale reform of the Spanish Copyright Act was published on 5 November 2014. The key aspects of the reform are discussed here. The bulk of the opposition to the reform contends…
"What the Court did not consider though, is that the outcome of the application of the 3-step test to the digitisation of each individual work for the purposes of making it available for research…
"A clear intention to solve some of the most disturbing problems in Spanish IP."
On February 14th, the Spanish Government approved a bill to amend the law of intellectual property (TRLPI). The…
We have closed our second blog poll and we have counted the votes. First of all, it is heartwarming to see that more readers are concerned about the position of orphans than about private copying:…
"This would mean that the ruling will not leave end-users substantially worse-off, despite the qualification of their acts as infringing. However, that is a difficult argument to make."
In its…
Last week the European Parliament adopted a resolution on private copying levies. The initiative for the motion came from Ms Francoise Castex MEP (Socialists and Democrats).
The European Parliament…
This blog post discusses the recent Opinion by Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón in Case C-435/12 - ACI Adam and Others, delivered on 9 January 2014 (not available in English).
In this case,…
""The difficulty also lies in the fact that (to our knowledge) no levy system within the EU provided before Padawan for such a distinction and that the structure of the payment system did/does not…
An Italian administrative court says yes.
Directive 29/2001/EC on copyright and related rights in the information society introduced the principle that EU Member States may authorize individuals to…
