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This article highlights how the EU fundamental rights framework should inform the liability regime of platforms foreseen in secondary EU law, in particular with regard to the reform of the E‐commerce directive by the Digital Services Act. In order to identify all possible tensions between the liability regime of platforms on the one hand, and fundamental rights on the other hand, and in order to contribute...
This Opinion from the European Copyright Society (ECS) discusses the legal boundaries of the use of sound sampling under copyright law in the context of the currently pending CJEU case 476/17 (Pelham GmbH v. Hütter). The ECS recommends a careful interpretation of the scope of the phonogram producer’s right. In the absence of any threshold or condition for protection, this right will extend to cover...
This opinion aims at examining the Text and Data Mining (TDM) process and its legal aspects in the context of the Commission’s proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which introduces in its Art. 3 a mandatory exception to copyright allowing for the carrying out of text and data mining of protected works. The discussion starts with the examination of several critical questions...
Christophe Geiger is Professor of Law, Director General and Director of the Research Department of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg (France); Affiliated Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany); and Spangenberg Fellow in Law & Technology at the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology...
In this opinion, the European Copyright Society (ECS) puts on record its views on the issues raised by the Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Case C-201/13, Deckmyn, which departs from the doctrine of strict interpretation of exceptions and limitations in cases in which fundamental rights such as freedom of expression are involved. The opinion welcomes this development...
Courts have traditionally considered copyright to be immune to any external freedom of expression review, the tension between those rights having to be resolved through internal balancing mechanisms such as the idea/expression dichotomy or limitations and exceptions to the exclusive right. Two important rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rendered in 2013 clearly challenge this...
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