CELEX: 62017CN0161
Language: en
Date: 2017-03-31 00:00:00
Title: Case C-161/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 31 March 2017 — Land Nordrhein-Westfalen v Dirk Renckhoff

17.7.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 231/5
            
         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) if the work is first copied onto a server and is uploaded from there to that person’s own website?
   
      (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.