‘Reproducing copyright works in the cloud – do we need a new copyright levy?’

“Should authors and artists receive appropriate compensation when we store their works on a virtual disk such as a cloud? This question will be tackled by the Court of Justice in case between Austrian copyright collecting society Austro-Mechana and German company Strato AG which provides cloud services to its users (case C-433/20). Meanwhile, Advocate General Gerard Hogan has already issued his opinion in the case …” (more)

[Adrianna Michałowicz, Recent developments in European Consumer Law, 13 October]

First posted 2021-10-14 08:00:39

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