Netherlands: NUV v. Tom Kabinet, Court of Appeal of Amsterdam, ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2015:66, 20 January 2015

The Court of Appeal ruled that the resale of used e-books by Tom Kabinet was permitted based on the CJEU’s UsedSoft ruling, although that case dealt with the sale of second-hand software. Nevertheless, the Court agreed with NUV that Tom Kabinet, as an internet intermediary, facilitates the resale of illegal content by the absence of sufficient and effective measures to ban illegal e-books.

A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law