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Posted on April 13th, 2016 By Nils Rauer, Eva Vonau and Diana Ettig Posted in Copyright
EU: Advocate General – Hyperlinking is lawful regardless whether content was uploaded with or without permission
Hyperlinks are yet again on the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) agenda. Whilst in 2014, the decision Svensson (C-466/12) and BestWater International (C-348/13) set path-breaking precedent, the current matter GS Media (C-160/15) promises to fill those gaps that remained after the first two judgments.
On 7 April 2016, it was for … Continue Reading
Posted on July 10th, 2015 By Eva Vonau Posted in Copyright
Framing in the limelight: German Federal Supreme Court – “framing” of copyrighted content is not infringement if originally uploaded with consent
On 9 July 2015, the German Federal Supreme Court ruled, once again, on the case of Bestwater. You may already know this case as both the German Federal Supreme Court and the CJEU already released decisions on it before.
The case concerns the claim of Bestwater, a German company manufacturing and distributing water purification systems, that its rights were infringed … Continue Reading
Posted on June 29th, 2015 By Eva Vonau Posted in Copyright, Policy & Regulation
Germany follows the CJEU – Playing music at the dentists
The German Federal Supreme Court handed down a decision concerning a dentist playing background music from broadcasting stations in the waiting area of his practice (I ZR 14/14). If this sounds familiar to you it is because the CJEU decided about a nearly identical case on the 15 March 2012 (C-135/10).
In the CJEU case, the “SCF”, the … Continue Reading
Posted on December 4th, 2014 By Eva Vonau Posted in Copyright, Internet, Telecoms & Broadband
German Court asks CJEU: Are businesses that provide password-free WIFI liable for third party copyright infringements?
The German Regional Court of Munich (Decision No. 7 O 14719/12) has referred various questions to the CJEU seeking clarification on the liability of businesses that provide password-free WIFI access for copyright infringements carried out by their users.
In the case at hand a German shop owner that sold and let sound and light equipment for events provided a password-free … Continue Reading
Posted on October 30th, 2014 By Eva Vonau Posted in Copyright, Internet
CJEU rules on whether ‘framing’ amounts to copyright infringement
On 21 October 2014 the CJEU had to decide in the case of Bestwater whether embedding content in a website via “framing” constitutes “communication to the public” within the meaning of Article 3 of the InfoSoc Directive[1] and therefore infringes the copyright of the creator of the content.
“Framing” refers to the practice of linking to content in a … Continue Reading
Posted on July 8th, 2014 By Morten Petersenn and Eva Vonau Posted in Copyright, Entertainment & Content, Policy & Regulation
The EU Commissioner for … Continue Reading