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The Renckhoff judgment: The CJEU swivels the faces of the Copyright Rubik’s...
The delimitation of the proper boundaries of lawful use of copyright-protected works on the Internet has always been puzzling for courts, which in some instances have creatively interpreted the...
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The Renckhoff judgment: The CJEU swivels the faces of the Copyright Rubik’s...
As discussed in Part I of this blogpost, the CJEU in Renckhoff was called, once again, to analyse the application of copyright in relation to the use of copyright-protected works on the Internet. The...
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Mirror, mirror, tell me, is the Copyright law fair and balanced? Reflection...
On 10 January 2019, the Advocate General (AG) Szpunar delivered his opinion in the case Spiegel Online GmbH v Volker Beck (C 516/17). The case is part of a trilogy of preliminary references raised by...
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Mirror, mirror, tell me, is the Copyright law fair and balanced? Reflection...
On 10 January 2019, the Advocate General (AG) Szpunar delivered his opinion in the case Spiegel Online GmbH v Volker Beck (C 516/17). Part I of this blogpost explored the AG’s stance in relation to...
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The New Copyright Directive: Out of commerce works (Articles 8 to 11): is it...
Articles 8-11 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) aim to establish a clear framework for the digitisation and dissemination, including across borders, of works or other...
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The New Copyright Directive: Out of commerce works (Articles 8 to 11): is it...
Part I of this blogpost was dedicated to the background which led to Articles 8-11 of the CDSM and to the concept of out of commerce works. Part II critically overviews the core of the mechanisms...
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Reflections on the CJEU’s judgment in Spiegel online: is there a golden...
On 29 July 2019, the CJEU delivered its hotly awaited decision in the case Spiegel Online GmbH v Volker Beck (C 516/17). The decision is part of a trilogy of preliminary references raised by the German...
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Reflections on the CJEU’s judgment in Spiegel online: is there a golden...
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 case...
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European Copyright Society’s (ECS) Comments on the implementation of the CDSM...
Almost a year has passed since the adoption of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive on the 6th of July 2019. This marked the end of a controversial legislative...
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European Copyright Society’s (ECS) Comments on the implementation of the CDSM...
The European Copyright Society (ECS) has issued a series of insightful Comments on the implementation of the CDSM Directive’s provisions, which aim to serve as guidelines for policy options for the...
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Copyright law trapped in the web of hyperlinking: the AG’s Opinion in the VG...
On September 10, 2020 the Advocate General (AG) Maciej Szpunar delivered his Opinion on the case of VG Bild-Kunst v Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitzanother (C‑392/19), a further case concerning the...
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Copyright law trapped in the web of hyperlinking: the AG’s Opinion in the VG...
The first part of this blogpost analysed the main theoretical foundations of the AG’s Opinion in the VG Bild-Kunst case (C‑392/19). The second part focuses on the application of this theoretical...
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Search engines and databases in the search for a balance: the AG’s Opinion in...
Image by Mediamodifier from Pixabay On 14 January 2021, Advocate General (AG) Szpunar delivered his Opinion in Case C‑762/19, SIA ‘CV-Online Latvia’ v SIA ‘Melons’, a further case relating to the...
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“Framing” the right of communication to the public: the CJEU’s decision on...
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay On March 9th, 2021 the CJEU delivered its eagerly awaited decision on the VG Kunst case (C‑392/19). The facts of the case are interesting, since the question of the...
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Copyright law and football matches: impossible to match? (Part I)
This post is based on the chapter “Audiovisual Coverage of Sports Events and Copyright Law: Originality in the Details?” in Natalie Helberger, Joost Poort, Martin Senftleben, Mireille van Eechoud, Stef...
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Copyright law and football matches: impossible to match? (Part II)
This post is based on the chapter “Audiovisual Coverage of Sports Events and Copyright Law: Originality in the Details?” in Natalie Helberger, Joost Poort, Martin Senftleben, Mireille van Eechoud,...
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Broadcasters’ Cable Retransmission Rights: in line (or not) with the EU right...
Image by Michael Schwarzenberger via Pixabay On March 10th, 2022, the Advocate General (AG) Pitruzzella delivered his Opinion on the case RTL Television GmbH v Grupo Pestana S.G.P.S., S.A., et al...
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Comment of the European Copyright Society Addressing Selected Aspects of the...
Source: European Copyright Society Almost 3 years after the adoption of the Digital Single Market (Directive (EU) 2019/790) (CDSM Directive), its transposition by the Member States (MS) has proved to...
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AG Szpunar’s Opinion in Grand Production: “Grande première” for the VPN legal...
Grand Production d.o.o. v GO4YU GmbH (Case C‑423/21) The facts of the case are representative of the grey areas of the application of copyright territoriality in the digital era. The applicant, Grand...
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Mass transportation and mass communication to the public
On 20 April 2023 in the joined cases Blue Air ( C-775/21) and SNTFC (C-826/21) the CJEU pronounced once again on the infringement of the right of communication to the public, making a further...
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