Both the US and the EU now have basic copyright terms of the life of the author plus 70 years. But when US authors simultaneously publish in Canada, they may end up truncating their term of…
“The activity of the operator of a dedicated meta search engine (…) comes close to the manufacture of a parasitical competing product.”
Christmas somewhat overshadowed the publication of a…
“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…
“Those who take a train have to accept the risk of being identified abstractly in the crowd of passengers, as this is simply part of the ‘risks of the life’.”
The Italian Supreme Court rules…
The Swiss working group on Copyright (AGUR12) released his report on December 2013 related to management of rights at the digital age. This should lead to a legal basis for a notice and…
Although the actual founding of the Institute for Information Law is shrouded in myth and mystery, in 2014 it will be 25 years ago that IViR was officially established as a research centre at the…
It doesn’t happen every day that copyright law and its daily application receive such an overwhelming media coverage. Germany’s biggest news portals, the public service broadcasters and major…
"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…
By Valentina Moscon, Scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute & University of Trento
The Italian Parliament recently approved a new law concerning the valorization of culture (Law of…
“For the ECJ, in the meaning of Article 5(3) of the Regulation 44/2001, a harmful event may arise from the possibility of obtaining a reproduction of a work from an internet site accessible…
