‘Copyright vs data protection: CJEU grappling with the right to information about infringers’

“On 9 July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in Case C-264/19 Constantin Film Verleih v YouTube and Google Inc. Providing clarification on the scope of the copyright holder’s right to information, the CJEU decided that the notion of ‘address’, as set in Directive 2004/48/EC (Enforcement Directive), does not encompass IP addresses, email addresses and phone numbers of online users, unless otherwise specified by national law …” (more)

[Giulia Priora, Kluwer Copyright Blog, 2 September]

First posted 2020-09-03 05:03:35

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