The book “The Variable Scope of the Exclusive Economic Rights in Copyright” recently published in Kluwer’s Information Law Series is the result of my doctoral research (which led to a doctoral…
In a battle between the Zurich Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) and three publishers (Elsevier, Springer, Thieme), the Zurich Commercial Court, in its decision of 7 April 2014,…
"With respect to the current stunted reform, the new legislation once again touches on past issues that were never properly resolved, and I am afraid that this is still the case now. The first…
"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). …
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…
"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…
May we have your votes please? We are about to close the our opinion poll on private copying levies and would like to ask the last floating voters to make up their minds, to urge the…
“This indicates the main danger of the ruling, that of fragmentation. This was foreseen by the Austrian referring court, which suggested that guidelines assessing the proportionality of…
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…
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…
