The European Commission's desire to modernise copyright law is a good thing, but a key part of its proposal would seriously threaten our freedom of expression.
Estonia holding the EU's rotating presidency has been pushing the 28 member states to strengthen indiscriminate internet surveillance – a Council of the European Union document leaked by Statewatch shows. The document...
The European Court of Justice will consider Germany's ancillary copyright law, which lets publishers charge search engines like Google for using article snippets in their news aggregators. Germany, where Google has a...
A crucial case that should bring clarity to the legality of watching pirate streams was heard last week by the European Court of Justice. The Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN and Spanish authorities argued that offering...
The 23-year-old Lithuanian creator of a browser extension that corrects misleading headlines came under fire from news sites for alleged copyright infringement.
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The Dutch Supreme Court has referred preliminary questions to the European Court of Justice about the blockade of the torrent site The Pirate Bay. The case about the blockade has been ongoing in Dutch courts since...
Embedding a video or image from another website, a process known as "framing," does not constitute copyright infringement under EU law if the material is available to the general public anyway.
The recent opinion of European Court of Justice Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen on a German copyright case paves the way for a ruling later this year by the Court that may finally bring some resolution to the debate on liberalizing EU copyright law.
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.
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