Subscribe
istock-855425032-recep-bg
8 August 2018Copyright

CJEU gives copyright lesson in online image case

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) yesterday ruled that uploading a freely-accessible image found online onto a third-party website without the consent of the copyright owner is an act of infringement.

Already registered?

Login to your account

To request a FREE 2-week trial subscription, please signup.
NOTE - this can take up to 48hrs to be approved.

Two Weeks Free Trial

For multi-user price options, or to check if your company has an existing subscription that we can add you to for FREE, please email Adrian Tapping at atapping@newtonmedia.co.uk


More on this story

Copyright
AG provides lesson on copyright use and teaching
25 April 2018   Internet users should not be required to investigate the copyright status of an image found online and used in relation to teaching purposes, according to an opinion of an advocate general.


Editor's picks

In focus: EPO's landmark G1/25 referral and what it could mean
Patents
In focus: EPO's landmark G1/25 referral and what it could mean
5 August 2025

Editor's picks

Patents
In focus: EPO's landmark G1/25 referral and what it could mean
5 August 2025
Trade secrets
Propel Fuels nets $883m in trade secrets dispute
1 August 2025
Patents
SAP, Google, Goodyear: Hot summer cases at the Federal Circuit
23 July 2025
Patents
Emotional Perception: Supreme Court chases the ghost in the ‘machine’
22 July 2025
Patents
Thaler 2: AI-generated inventions return to the UK High Court
21 July 2025
Artificial Intelligence
Starjacking and reverse engineering: How AI is changing IP crime
18 July 2025

More articles

AI law: Is the UK lagging behind other countries or playing the long game?
FRAND in the UK part 2: Interim licences and other jurisdictions
Blank cheque for Big Tech: Trump’s AI plan leaves creators in the cold
Emotional Perception: Supreme Court chases the ghost in the ‘machine’
Pressure mounts for Anthropic as judge allows authors to include pirated datasets in claims
Why Rubik’s Cube was denied TM protection (again)
Microsoft wins at UPC in tech patent feud after NPE failed to pay €300K
EU takes fight to genAI in tough week for Big Tech