CELEX: 62019CA0637
Language: en
Date: 2020-10-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-637/19: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Svea hovrätt — Patent- och marknadsöverdomstolen — Sweden) — BY v CX (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Copyright and related rights — Directive 2001/29/EC — Information society — Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights — Article 3(1) — Communication to the public — Notion of ‘public’ — Transmission by electronic means to a court of a protected work as evidence in court proceedings)

14.12.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 433/14
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 28 October 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Svea hovrätt — Patent- och marknadsöverdomstolen — Sweden) — BY v CX
      (Case C-637/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Copyright and related rights - Directive 2001/29/EC - Information society - Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights - Article 3(1) - Communication to the public - Notion of ‘public’ - Transmission by electronic means to a court of a protected work as evidence in court proceedings)
      (2020/C 433/16)
      Language of the case: Swedish
      
         Referring court
      
      Svea hovrätt — Patent- och marknadsöverdomstolen
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: BY
      
         Defendant: CX
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      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 must be interpreted as meaning that the concept of ‘communication to the public’, referred to in that provision, does not cover the transmission by electronic means of a protected work to a court, as evidence in judicial proceedings between individuals.
      
         (1)  OJ C 372, 4.11.2019.