Judge-rapporteur Marko Ilešic delivering the judgment in Case C-401/19 (Copyright European Union via Europe by Satellite - https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/copyright)
Article 17 is here to stay,…
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Fundamental Rights are the constants in many constitutional orders. They provide stability, continuity in values and encapsulate the normative skeleton of a…
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The European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling in joined cases C-682/18 (YouTube) and C-683/18 (Cyando), concerning platform liability for copyright-infringing user…
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On 30 April 2020, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) delivered its ruling in the ‘Metall auf Metall’ saga. It decided that the appeals court had erred in finding that reproduction of…
German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) decisions of April 30, 2020 ( I ZR 139/15 and I ZR 228/15)
Recently, the German Federal Supreme Court issued press releases in two cases which are…
A year after the adoption of Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, many questions about its compatibility with fundamental rights remain unanswered. Germany…
On 29 July the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) finally rendered its long-awaited judgment in Case C-476/17, Pelham v Hütter and Schneider-Esleben., together with its judgments on two…
European Court of Justice decisions of July 29, 2019 (C-469/17 and C-516/17)
The abuse of copyright as a "legal weapon" to suppress press reports is not a new development - for decades authors and…
The turbulent relationship between copyright law and the freedoms of information and expression lies at the heart of the recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the…
