Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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| 17.7.2017 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 231/5 |

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Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 31 March 2017 — Land Nordrhein-Westfalen v Dirk Renckhoff

(Case C-161/17)

(2017/C 231/06)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundesgerichtshof

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Land Nordrhein-Westfalen

Defendant: Dirk Renckhoff

Question referred

Does the inclusion of a work — which is freely accessible to all internet users on a third-party website with the consent of the copyright holder — on a person’s own publicly accessible website constitute a making available of that work to the public within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/29/EC[(1)](#ntr1-C_2017231EN.01000501-E0001) if the work is first copied onto a server and is uploaded from there to that person’s own website?

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