CELEX: 62018CA0263
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Case C-263/18: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 19 December 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the rechtbank Den Haag — Netherlands) — Nederlands Uitgeversverbond, Groep Algemene Uitgevers v Tom Kabinet Internet BV, Tom Kabinet Holding BV, Tom Kabinet Uitgeverij BV (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society — Directive 2001/29/EC — Article 3(1) — Right of communication to the public — Making available — Article 4 — Distribution right — Exhaustion — Electronic books (e-books) — Virtual market for ‘second-hand’ e-books)

24.2.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 61/5
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 19 December 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the rechtbank Den Haag — Netherlands) — Nederlands Uitgeversverbond, Groep Algemene Uitgevers v Tom Kabinet Internet BV, Tom Kabinet Holding BV, Tom Kabinet Uitgeverij BV
      (Case C-263/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society - Directive 2001/29/EC - Article 3(1) - Right of communication to the public - Making available - Article 4 - Distribution right - Exhaustion - Electronic books (e-books) - Virtual market for ‘second-hand’ e-books)
      (2020/C 61/05)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Rechtbank Den Haag
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Nederlands Uitgeversverbond, Groep Algemene Uitgevers
      
         Defendants: Tom Kabinet Internet BV, Tom Kabinet Holding BV, Tom Kabinet Uitgeverij BV
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The supply to the public by downloading, for permanent use, of an e-book is covered by the concept of ‘communication to the public’ and, more specifically, by that of ‘making available to the public of [authors’] works in such a way that members of the public may access them from a place and at a time individually chosen by them’, within the meaning of Article 3(1) of 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.
      
         (1)  OJ C 276, 6.8.2018.