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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

Copies of emails between the parties provided to the Court proved that opinions had been exchanged before the composition of the products was finalised. Compensation presupposes culpability and infringement of IP (or related rights) (i.e., 7) CJEU, C-406/2010, ECLI:EU:C:2012:259, paragraph 33. 5) Supreme Court 484/2020.

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‘Copying into Copyright Law’: Ireland’s minimalist transposition of Directive 2019/790

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In the matter on which the first decision was based, the collective remuneration rules for freelance, full-time journalists for daily newspapers from January 2010 were able to be cited for guidance purposes although the plaintiff was claiming remuneration for a period not covered by the remuneration rules.

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CJEU Gives File-Sharer Surveillance & Data Retention a Green Light

TorrentFreak

As part of anti-piracy scheme featuring warning letters, fines, and ISP disconnections, France has monitored and stored data on millions of internet users since 2010. Digital rights groups insist that as a general surveillance and data retention scheme, the ‘Hadopi’ program violates fundamental rights.

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