European Cyberlaw

Intellectual property on-line (media)

Chyba: Odkazovaný objekt neexistuje nebo nemáte právo jej číst.
https://is.muni.cz/el/law/podzim2021/SOC022/um/ECL.pptx

Learning aim & Takeaway

 After this lesson you should be able to answer (inter alia) these questions:

  • What are the general rights granted to rightholders under the general EU copyright legislation?
  • What are the exceptions and limitations thereof?
  • How does the three-step test function?
  • How are hyperlinks treated in the EU legislation? Are they communication to the public?
  • What are the so called Creative Commons licences, how do they function?

Reading

Mandatory - please do read this paper:
RENDAS, T. Copyright Technology and the CJEU: An Empirical Study. IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law [online]. 2018, vol. 49, no. 2, p. 153–184. doi:10.1007/s40319-017-0664-0 (available via e-zdroje - https://ezdroje.muni.cz/index.php?lang=en).

Also please familiarize yourself with the workings of the CC licences:

Also please read the summary of the InfoSoc directive.


There are furhter to read that cover the discussed issues:

QUINTAIS, J.P. Private Copying and Downloading from Unlawful Sources. IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law [online]. 2015, vol. 46, no. 1, p. 66–92. doi:10.1007/s40319-014-0295-7
ROSATI, E. GS Media and Its Implications for the Construction of the Right of Communication to the Public within EU Copyright Architecture (March 29, 2017). (2017) 54(4) Common Market Law Review 1221-1242, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2943040
LEEUW, E. The Creative Commons License: Is Validity Enough? A Review of Liability and Enforceability in Creative Commons Licensing (December 5, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2328989 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2328989

Legal regulation

Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society 

Case Law

You shall generally know what the cases mentioned in the mandatory paper by Rendas are about, especially focus on these ones (all of them were discussed during the class - some of them are mentioned in more detail in the paper by Rendas):


Supplementary presentation (general introduction to EU IP Law)

EUIP Myska
These slides will not be used in presentation, however could be used to give
Please focus especially on the parts related to Copyright, Software, Free/Open Licenses

Supplementary reading

This is a very informative paper discussing the impact of technology on IP

LEMLEY, M.A. IP in a World without Scarcity. New York University Law Review [online]. 2015, vol. 90, no. 2, p. 460–515. Available via MUNI VPN: http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/nylr90&div=14&collection=journals&set_as_cursor=0&men_tab=srchresults

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