Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Thursday, 1 June 2017

German courts make two (very important) copyright references to the CJEU

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Eleonora Rosati  writing on the  IPKat This morning the  Bundesgerichtshof (BGH, the German Federal Court of Justice) has referred n...
Monday, 24 April 2017

Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf applies CJEU Mc Fadden decision

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1709 Blog readers will recall that last September the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its decision in the  importa...
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Wednesday, 4 May 2016

The CopyKat

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Maurice Ravel in 1925 There were a myriad of reports that almost 90 years after it was first performed in Paris, the copyright in Mauric...
Friday, 10 January 2014

The CopyKat - its good to share - isn't it?

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Bruno Mars MusicMetric says that Bruno Mars appears to be the most-stolen-from singer of the year, with 5.8 million illegal downloads. R...
Saturday, 9 November 2013

Old Czech composers, current German MS owners and restrictions on use: can you help?

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From the Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon in F major by Antonín Reichenauer, who died in Prague in 1730 One of the 1709 Blog's readers ...
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Monday, 4 March 2013

German "ancillary copyright" bill: news aggregators may use short excerpts

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Readers may remember that last summer this blog reported that German legislators were considering a proposed "ancillary copyright"...
Friday, 16 November 2012

Should parents be responsible for their teenager's actions?

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I should rephrase that as: should parents be legally responsible for their teenager's actions? As we all know, teenagers are a law unto...
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Friday, 19 October 2012

Validity of sublicence upon lapse of principal licence

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When I was perusing this summer’s judgments added to the online database of the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), I came across two particularly inte...
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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Law firm gets sued over threats to name and shame alleged downloaders

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Undoubtedly moved by the conviction that the only bad press you can get is your obituary, Bavarian law firm Urmann + Co...