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8 April 2020CopyrightRory O'Neill

Analysis: untangling the EU’s ‘communication to the public’ rule

Last week’s  Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling in  Stim and SAMI v Fleetmanager put the spotlight firmly back on one of the more puzzling, and seemingly ever-evolving, concepts in EU copyright law—what is, and isn’t, a communication to the public?

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