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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.

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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.


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