German courts have been dealing with the Metall auf Metall [song by the German band Kraftwerk] case for two decades. Recently, the CJEU, too, has had to deal with the case and ruled by judgment of 29 July 2019 (C-476/17) that...more
8/5/2019
/ Artistic Works ,
Audio Recording ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Digital Sampling ,
EU ,
Infringement ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Music Industry ,
Musical Sound Recordings
In December 2018, CJEU Advocate General Szpunar took the view that the reuse of a sound sequence in a new song (referred to as sampling) without the author’s permission violates copyright law (case C-476/17 – Moses Pelham et...more
2/11/2019
/ Advocate General ,
Artistic Works ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Digital Sampling ,
Germany ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Music Industry ,
Musical Sound Recordings ,
Right of Reproduction