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Can’t Hide from Brussels: EU To Require Copyright-Related AI Disclosures

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 4/10/2024

A whole host of creators have filed suit in the U.S. alleging that AI companies improperly used the creators’ content to train AI programs. In most cases, the creators don’t know for sure whether the AI companies copied...more

Musikrecht: Urheber muss bearbeitetem Foto auf Albumcover zustimmen

Spirit Legal on 4/22/2022

Die Verwendung fremder Fotografien kann urheberrechtlich problematisch sein. Das gilt auch, wenn fremde Bilder bearbeitet werden. Doch wann genau benötigt man die Erlaubnis des Urhebers für eine Bearbeitung und wann nicht?...more

Lindgren heirs win in dispute over Pippi Longstocking lyrics

Hogan Lovells on 2/9/2021

In a recent ruling by the Regional Court Hamburg (Case No. 308 O 431/17), the court awarded the heirs of children's book author Astrid Lindgren a right to information ...more

Ruling of the regional court Frankfurt: Sea rescuer obtains a cease and desist order against former Deputy Prime Minister of...

Spirit Legal on 10/30/2020

In a decision dated 23 September 2020 (Case No. 2-06 O 335/19), the Frankfurt Regional Court ordered the former Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, at the request of Mission Lifeline crew member Friedhold...more

Tom Kabinet: CJEU rules resale of e-books requires permission of copyright holder

Hogan Lovells on 1/27/2020

The CJEU in its Tom Kabinet judgment has ruled that the supply of e-books qualifies as “an act of communication to the public” under the InfoSoc Directive instead of “a distribution to the public” as is the case with physical...more

Déjà vu as EU court revisits online platform liability for infringing content uploaded by users

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 9/5/2019

The European Union’s highest court will have another opportunity to consider the issue of the liability of online platforms for copyright infringing content uploaded and shared by users. Two referrals from national courts...more

CJEU pokes holes in copyright protection for the taste of cheese

Hogan Lovells on 11/16/2018

This week, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled that the taste of cheese does not enjoy any copyright protection (C-310/17)....more

EU Copyright – Infringing the distribution right: AG includes warehousing of counterfeits

Hogan Lovells on 10/22/2018

A Swedish preliminary ruling procedure is currently pending before the European Court of Justice (CJEU) and represents the latest in a run of rulings on the scope of the distribution right under Article 4 of the InfoSoc...more

German Federal Court of Justice submits copyright dispute over YouTube to CJEU

Hogan Lovells on 9/14/2018

This week, copyright is all over the place. After the European Parliament voted on proposed copyright reform in Europe last Wednesday (12 September 2018), the long-awaited decision of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH)...more

Germany: No indirect liability for open Wifi

Hogan Lovells on 8/16/2018

At the end of July, the German Federal Court handed down its judgment in a copyright case having huge impact for operators of open Wifi services. For the first time, the judges had to deal with Sec. 7 (4) and Sec. 8 (1) s. 2...more

CJEU: Re-posting content is a “communication to the public”

Hogan Lovells on 8/9/2018

Copying an image from a website and using it for one’s own purposes, e.g. the illustration of a memo which eventually happens to be uploaded to another website – this happens a hundred times every day. However, such conduct...more

Can a taste be protected by copyright in Europe?

Hogan Lovells on 7/30/2018

This is, in essence, the fundamental question that has been submitted to the CJEU in the case C-310/17 (Levola Hengelo v. Smile Foods). ...more

CJEU rules on Cloud Recorder: Transmission constitutes a communication to the public that requires the right holders consent

Hogan Lovells on 12/5/2017

On 29 November 2017, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down a decision on a video recording service that stores TV programmes online in a cloud (C-265/16 – VCAST). ...more

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Can’t Hide from Brussels: EU To Require Copyright-Related AI Disclosures

Musikrecht: Urheber muss bearbeitetem Foto auf Albumcover zustimmen

Lindgren heirs win in dispute over Pippi Longstocking lyrics

Ruling of the regional court Frankfurt: Sea rescuer obtains a cease and desist order against former Deputy Prime Minister of...

Tom Kabinet: CJEU rules resale of e-books requires permission of copyright holder

Déjà vu as EU court revisits online platform liability for infringing content uploaded by users

CJEU pokes holes in copyright protection for the taste of cheese

EU Copyright – Infringing the distribution right: AG includes warehousing of counterfeits

German Federal Court of Justice submits copyright dispute over YouTube to CJEU

Germany: No indirect liability for open Wifi

CJEU: Re-posting content is a “communication to the public”

Can a taste be protected by copyright in Europe?

CJEU rules on Cloud Recorder: Transmission constitutes a communication to the public that requires the right holders consent

German Federal Court Rules On Google’s Image Search – Thumbnails III

CJEU rules on sale of multimedia players with add-ons to illegal streaming websites

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