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Blank Tape Levies: the Latvian Constitutional Court’s first copyright case
Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg “The Cabinet of Ministers has failed to assess impact of technology development onto blank tapes and equipment to be used for reproduction and thus imposable with...
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Downloading from Unlawful Sources. Reflections following the Villalón Opinion...
Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. This blog post discusses the recent Opinion by Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón in Case C-435/12 – ACI Adam and Others, delivered on 9...
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Blog Poll: Is the private copying system a virtuous system?
Last week the European Parliament adopted a resolution on private copying levies. The initiative for the motion came from Ms Francoise Castex MEP (Socialists and Democrats). The European Parliament...
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No more downloading from unlawful sources?
Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. “This would mean that the ruling will not leave end-users substantially worse-off, despite the qualification of their acts as infringing....
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Copyright Levy on Storage Media goes Cloud?
The story of Austria’s copyright levy on storage media (storage media levy, briefly “SML”) is not over: In its latest chapter, the Austrian courts – and now also the Court of Justice of the European...
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Private Copying Levy for Social Purposes – Draft Changes in Poland and...
Photo by Bank Phrom on Unsplash The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy (also known as the...
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Private Copying Levy for Social Purposes – Draft Changes in Poland and...
Photo by Bank Phrom on Unsplash The Polish Ministry of Culture has announced draft changes to the Polish copyright law on the collection and division of the private copying levy. The draft law on the...
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Cloud Services and private copying levy: further developments in the AG...
Image by Mudassar Iqbal from Pixabay Introduction In a previous post on this Blog, we analysed the EU case law relating to the emerging services of Cloud Service Providers (C-265/16, V-CAST), as well...
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EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2021
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! We started this rubric in the beginning of 2021. In this series, we update readers...
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Private Copying Levies for Cloud Storages? An ongoing dispute…
Image by C Dustin via Unsplash Despite the increasing use of streaming services, where media content is not stored on local devices, but merely accessed online, the private copying exception (Art...
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