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• New neighbouring right to be introduced in Germany

  Posted on 三月 6, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  By Monika to The 1709 Blog on 3/06/2012 The German coalition government has decided to create a new neighbouring right for newspaper publishers. In the future, commercial Internet service providers, such as search engine providers and news aggregators, shall pay an equitable remuneration to publishers for the use of media products such as newspaper articles. The move [...]

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• BGH: hyperlinks, freedom of expression and copyright infringing software

  Posted on 二月 22, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  by Birgit Clark @ The IPKat on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 In October 2010, the Bundesgerichtshof (“BGH”), Germany’s highest court in civil law matters, decided in the ‘AnyDVD’ case (case reference I ZR 191/08) a lawsuit brought by several music companies against Heise Verlag, an online publisher specializing in IT and computer news (see the IPKat’s earlier report here). [...]

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