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| Oh my, what can it be?? Hopefully a ticket to attend an EU copyright event! |
With Valentine’s Day quickly
approaching, is there anything better than to think of our love (or, rather:
hate?) for EU copyright?
Notoriously this has become an area in
which things happen more quickly than when falling in love at first sight.
Since the beginning of this year (so
not long time ago!), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has
already issued a number of topical decisions, which have touched upon:
- The relationship between copyright, databases, and contractual
freedom (Ryanair);
- The circumstances which give rise to the exhaustion of the right of
the copyright owner to control further distribution of his/her work under
the InfoSoc Directive, including such topical questions as: does this
directive envisage digital exhaustion? (Art & Allposters);
- Whether there is such thing as a general EU right of adaptation
(does it matter?) (Art & Allposters);
- Jurisdiction in alleged online copyright infringement cases (Hejduk).
On 5 March the CJEU will also deliver
its much-awaited ruling in Copydan. This is a case which hopefully will
shed some further light on the private copying exception in Directive 2001/29 (the InfoSoc Directive),
including levies and ... their lack thereof. The latter will be relevant to
understanding better the new UK exception for personal copies for private use
(currently subject to judicial review), notably its lack of levies. Is
the UK move compatible with EU law?
In parallel to judicial activity, the
new Commission has already announced a major overhaul of EU copyright
architecture, and the European Parliament has asked Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda
to review the implementation of the InfoSoc
Directive and advise on how it could be reformed.
It is thus clear that there is
currently a lot going on in the area of everybody’s favourite IP right, at both
the EU judicial and policy levels.
This 3-hour 'EU Copyright, I Love You' event on Wednesday 11
March from 2 to 5 pm shall review such developments.
Places are limited (with some tickets
available for full time students), so to provide everybody with
the opportunity to discuss fully the present and future of EU copyright
law and policy. For those who cannot attend in person, it will be also possible
to follow the event in either live streaming or at a later time on YouTube.
The venue is the beautiful London offices of RPC.
CDP points are also available!
For further information and
registration, just click here.
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