European Cyberlaw

Intellectual property on-line (media)

ECL


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 further (recommended) resources 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 presentation 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 mentioned above):

  • C-360/13 - Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd and Others (Meltwater)- browsing as use
  • C- 466/12 - Svensson and Others v Retriever Sverige AB - hyperlink as communication to the public
  • C-160/15 - GS Media BV v Sanoma Media Netherlands BV and Others - hyperlink as communication to the public
  • C-610/15 - Stichting Brein v Ziggo BV, XS4ALL Internet BV - "Pirate Bay" - communication to the public
  • C-161/17 - Renckhoff - linking vs. copying of the protected subject matter
  • C-263/18 - Nederlands Uitgeversverbond a Groep Algemene Uitgevers ("Tom Kabinet") - (non)exhaustion of the communication to the public right, "second hand" sales of e-books not possible




    • Supplementary presentation (general introduction to EU IP Law)

    EUIP Myska
    These slides will not be used in presentation, however could be used to give a general over and introduction about the IP law in EU.
    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

    Article focusing on the issues of AI-generated Art: Epstein, Z. et al. Who Gets Credit for AI-Generated Art? iScience. 2020, vol. 9, s. 101515. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220307070
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