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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. In 2015, the BGH ruled that managing directors have limited liability in copyright matters.

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FMovies Piracy ‘Mastermind’ Confesses, Authorities Confirm Piracy Prosecution

TorrentFreak

Phan Thanh Cong and Nguyen Tuan Anh will be prosecuted for infringement of copyright and related rights under Clause 2, Section 225, Penal Code 2015. The Investigation Police Agency at Hanoi City Police says it has issued a decision to prosecute the case.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. Related rights.

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Open Access Book on Negotiating History of the WCT and WPPT by Dr. R.V.V. Ayyar

SpicyIP

How India developed its negotiating stance and played the negotiating game would be of interest to students, experts and practitioners of multilateral negotiations as well as of intellectual property in general, and copyright and related rights in particular.” Watal and A.

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Belgian Constitutional Court refers 13 questions on DSM Directive to the CJEU

The IPKat

15 of DSM Directive introduced a related right for press publishers to control the online uses of their press publications by information society service providers (ISSPs). The Constitutional Court also inquires on the compatibility of this right with EU law [unofficial translation by this Kat]: 9. 216/1 and XI.216/2)

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Book review: Performers' Rights

The IPKat

The first edition was published in 1990 and it is now in its 6th edition, updated from its previous version which was published in 2015. Topics include the evolution of the performers’ rights in the UK, through to all key aspects of the rights, such as subsistence, duration, ownership, licensing, remuneration, infringement, and exceptions.

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A summary look at the Portuguese transposition of the CDSM Directive

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In addition to significantly changing the Portuguese Copyright Code , the Decree-Law also affects Law 26/2015 on collective management organizations and Decree-Law 122/2000 on databases, and creates a new dispute resolution mechanism called “specialized institutionalized arbitration and mediation in matters of copyright and related rights”.

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