‘Not yet tired of linking and copyright? More on the CJEU decision in VG-Bild Kunst

“Earlier this year, The IPKat reported on the judgment of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in VG Bild-Kunst, C-392/19, an important case concerning contractual restrictions to linking under EU copyright law (on that occasion, I also updated my linking table: see here). The CJEU explicitly ruled – for the first time – that linking to a copyright work lawfully published on a third-party website may be restricted through contract and not solely through technical restrictions on access (for instance, a paywall) …” (more)

[Eleonora Rosati, The IPKat, 19 August]

First posted 2021-08-19 13:00:25

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