Under EU law, it is the author who decides about the public availability of his or her work, the Court of Justice of the European Union has decided.

An EU Court of Justice ruling concluded that hyperlinks to copyrighted content are legal, as long as the source is freely accessible. In the particular case, a Swedish journalists took umbrage with the fact that other...

In each Member State, debates are conducted on the need to pay copyright fees to a collecting society acting on behalf of authors. Every service provider or manufacturer that wishes to broadcast music to its employees or client needs to pay such a fee.