CELEX: 62013CN0348
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-348/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 25 June 2013 — BestWater International GmbH v Michael Mebes, Stefan Potsch

9.11.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 325/8
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 25 June 2013 — BestWater International GmbH v Michael Mebes, Stefan Potsch
   (Case C-348/13)
   2013/C 325/12
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bundesgerichtshof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: BestWater International GmbH
   
      Defendants: Michael Mebes, Stefan Potsch
   
      Question referred
   
   Does the embedding, within one’s own website, of another person’s work made available to the public on a third-party website, in circumstances such as those in the main proceedings, constitute communication to the public within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/29/EC, (1) even where that other person’s work is not thereby communicated to a new public and the communication of the work does not use a specific technical means which differs from that of the original communication?
   
      (1)  Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (OJ 2001 L 167, p. 10).