Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 18, 2024
There is a significant push at this week’s meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to approve a Diplomatic Conference on a Broadcasting Organizations Treaty that is not strictly limited to combating unlawful interception of traditional broadcast signals.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2022
At the same time, however, Article 6 of the Term Directive ( Directive 2006/116/EC ) also states that “Member States may provide for the protection of other photographs” and thus leaves to each Member State’s own discretion the decision of whether to provide some protection to non-original photographs in addition to “original” ones.
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TorrentFreak
JUNE 3, 2023
With torrent sites dominating the high seas of piracy in 2006, Bulgarian authorities decided to arrest Eliyan Geshev, administrator of the the country’s most popular tracker, ArenaBG. Public uproar in Bulgaria was significant but just a day later, Geshev was a free man once again.
LexBlog IP
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
NATURE OF THE CASE The above decisions dealt with requests for a preliminary ruling related to the interpretation of Article 3 of Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2022
On 22 September 2022, the AG Szpunar issued his opinion in the AKM case on the interpretation of communication to the public by a satellite. European Commission, European Media Freedom Act. In September, the European Commission proposed a new Regulation targeting media pluralism and independence in the EU.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
MAY 1, 2023
A 218/24.11.2022) implemented into the Greek legal order Directives (EU) 790/2019 (hereinafter DSMD) and 789/2019 (as well as Directive 2006/115 on the public lending right, but this is another (lengthy) story…). A major part of the amendments concerns Chapter 4 of Law 2121/1993, which regulates exceptions and limitations to copyright.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JANUARY 4, 2022
Or that Zinedine Zidane’s Panenka penalty in the 2006 World Cup final does not bear a personal creative stamp? At the same time, a global paradigm of online piracy enabling the retransmission of sports events on a worldwide basis has dynamically emerged. But, could they be considered as works in the sense of European copyright law?
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