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New Turkish Construction Regulations Impair the Copyright Protection on...
Koç University, Istanbul A brief outline of the copyright protection granted for architectural designs In Article 2/1, the Berne Convention counts architectural works, together with plans, sketches...
View ArticleFrance: Apple Distribution International, Conseil d’Etat, 358734, 19 November...
YS Avocats In this judgment, the French Supreme administrative Court, the Conseil d’Etat, confirms the validity of a decision taken on 9 February 2012 by the Commission in charge of setting the...
View ArticleCopyright in the new Belgian Code of Economic Law: codification and new...
De Wolf and Partners The Belgian legal order has recently welcomed a new legal code: the Code of Economic Law (CEL). Laws are not systematically arranged in codes in Belgium: there are some codes...
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Report by the US Copyright Office on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization
Faculty of Law, Stockholm University On June 4th, the US Copyright Office published a report on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization. The report addresses two situations where the current US copyright...
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The UK Consults on the Collective Rights Management Directive
Bristows By Jeremy Blum and Jade McIntyre, Bristows The EU Directive on the collective management of copyright and multi-territorial licensing of online music (“the Directive”), published on 26...
View ArticleThe Court of Justice, the Commission, and the case for consolidation of EU...
Ana RamalhoReaders of this blog are familiar (or should I say fed up?) with the piecemeal legal framework of EU copyright. With nine directives in the field of copyright alone (plus one on...
View ArticleDraft law provision on the administrative removal and blocking of online...
Tatiana SinodinouThe draft law for the implementation in Greece of Directive 2014/26/EU on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical...
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France: Courts must assess the remuneration for private copying
Brad SpitzYS AvocatsIn a judgment of 17 March 2016, the Cour de cassation, the French Supreme Court, ruled that the judicial courts are required to assess and award compensation for private copying in...
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France: Sony/Copie France, Court of Cassation of France, Commercial Law...
Brad SpitzYS AvocatsIn a judgment of 17 March 2016, the Cour de cassation, the French Supreme Court, ruled that the judicial courts are required to assess and award the remuneration for private copying...
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Paying the music man- royalties assessed by the Copyright Tribunal
Jeremy Blum and Andrew ButcherBristowsWhat is an appropriate royalty for a broadcaster to pay for the right to include music in its broadcasts? This is a question the UK Copyright Tribunal considered...
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Online copyright infringement: is the Communications Authority going too far?
Francesco SpreaficoItaly is currently being interested by an intense querelle about the role of the Communications Authority (“Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni”) in the enforcement of the...
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HADOPI survey on French Internet users’ practices
Catherine JasserandThe HADOPI Agency, in charge of protecting author’s rights on the Internet, has presented the results of its first survey on French Internet users’ practices and perceptions...
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Poland: Collecting Societies – New Regulations on Tariffs
Tomasz TargoszIt is a cliché that collecting societies play a significant role in shaping the practice of copyright contracts, however the fact that it is a cliché does not make it less true....
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First reactions to the Communications Authority proposal
Francesco SpreaficoThe Communications Authority proposal to have a leading role in the protection of copyright on electronic communication networks (as explained in its Resolution 668/10/CONS commented...
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Draft regulation for the protection of copyright on electronic communications...
Francesco SpreaficoOn July 6, 2011 the Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) approved the “Draft regulation regarding copyright protection on the electronic communications networks”, currently...
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HADOPI hits once again the headlines
Catherine JasserandIn this period of French presidential campaign, the HADOPI law has become a popular and recurrent topic. Most of the candidates have expressed an opinion (more or less constant) on...
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Must Carry – Must Offer – Must Infringe
Tomasz TargoszHow the Polish broadcasting law on must-carry and must-offer makes broadcasters choose whether to infringe copyright and licensing contracts or the Polish Broadcasting Act. This post is...
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Survey shows that the French graduated response fights online copyright...
Brad SpitzAt the end of 2017, HADOPI published an important survey on its activities for the period 2016-2017. It gives interesting and useful information on the graduated response created by the...
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Article 17 of the New Copyright Directive: A French mission on content...
Brad SpitzIn a letter dated 29 March 2019, the President of the CSPLA (‘Conseil supérieur de la propriété littéraire et artistique’), an independent body in charge of advising the French Minister of...
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The WIPO Files I: the quest to protect user rights
For most of its existence, international copyright policy at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has focused on the creation and harmonization of exclusive rights. This state of play...
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