CELEX: 62017CA0310
Language: en
Date: 2018-11-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-310/17: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 13 November 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Gerechtshof Arnhem-Leeuwarden — Netherlands) — Levola Hengelo BV v Smilde Foods BV (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Intellectual property — Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society — Directive 2001/29/EC — Scope — Article 2 — Reproduction rights — Concept of ‘work’ — Taste of a food product)

14.1.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 16/16
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 13 November 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Gerechtshof Arnhem-Leeuwarden — Netherlands) — Levola Hengelo BV v Smilde Foods BV
      (Case C-310/17) (1)
      
      ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Intellectual property - Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society - Directive 2001/29/EC - Scope - Article 2 - Reproduction rights - Concept of ‘work’ - Taste of a food product))
      (2019/C 16/18)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Gerechtshof Arnhem-Leeuwarden
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant: Levola Hengelo BV
      
         Respondent: Smilde Foods BV
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      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 must be interpreted as precluding (i) the taste of a food product from being protected by copyright under that directive and (ii) national legislation from being interpreted in such a way that it grants copyright protection to such a taste.
      
         (1)  OJ C 269, 14.8.2017.