- Feb 27, 2014
Report on private copying levies adopted in European Parliament
On the 27th of February, the Own Initiative report on private copying levies was adopted in the European Parliament plenary with 252 MEPs in favour, 122 against, and 15 abstaining. The Own Initiative was only voted on in the Committee for Legal Affairs (JURI) ten days ago, after having been delayed since December. According Rapporteur MEP Francoise Castex’s (S&D, FR) report, the European Parliament agrees that an EU-wide legislative system for the management of private copyin
- Feb 13, 2014
CJEU decides in hyper-linking case
On 13th February the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave its decision in the Nils Svensson and others v Retriever Sverige AB case (C‑466/12), referred by Swedish court Svea hovrätt. This long-awaited decision pondered the very technical question of whether a hyperlink to a rightholder’s copyright protected work placed on another website requires authorization from and remuneration for the rightholder. The CJEU ruled that although the act of creating a hyperlink
