CELEX: 62019CN0392
Language: en
Date: 2019-05-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-392/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 21 May 2019 — VG Bild-Kunst v Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

12.8.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 270/20
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 21 May 2019 — VG Bild-Kunst v Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
      (Case C-392/19)
      (2019/C 270/23)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Bundesgerichtshof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant in the appeal on a point of law: VG Bild-Kunst
      
         Respondent in the appeal on a point of law: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
      
         Question referred
      
      Does the embedding of a work — which is available on a freely accessible website with the consent of the rightholder — in the website of a third party by way of framing constitute communication to the public of that work within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/29/EC (1) where it occurs through circumvention of protection measures against framing taken or instigated by the rightholder?
      
         (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).