SABAM considered that SBS makes an act of communication to the public and, as such, is responsible to secure a licence from (and pay the relevant licence fee to) right holders.

On 7 August 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its first copyright judgment of 2018. The ECJ held in case C-161/17, Renckhoff, that the unauthorised re-posting of a copyrighted work is ...

On 1 December 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") adopted a judgment in case C-145/10 Eva-Maria Painer v. Standard Verlags GmbH, Axel Springer AG, Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co KG and Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg Expedition der Kölnischen Zeitung GmbH & Co KG.

In a preliminary ruling of 7 March 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union clarified that streaming of TV content should be regarded as a communication to the public.

On 15 April 2019, the Council of the European Union approved a Directive on the exercise of copyright and related rights applicable to certain online transmissions by broadcasting organisations and retransmissions of television ...

The painting at issue portraits Jean-Marie Dedecker, a Belgian politician, after he had suffered a heavy defeat at the ballots.

On 20 March 2014, the Court of Appeal of Liège handed down a judgment on the requirement of having a document "in writing" for evidentiary purposes in cases relating to the assignment of a copyright protecting a computer program.

In its judgment delivered on 1 March 2011 (Case C-604/10), the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") declined copyright protection for football fixture lists whose compilation is dictated by rules or constraints that leave no room for creative freedom.

On 22 May 2012, the European rapporteur for ACTA, David Martin, strongly recommended against the Treaty, saying that the intended benefits of the Treaty were far outweighed by the potential threats to civil liberties and given the vagueness of certain aspects of the text and the uncertainty over its interpretation, the European Parliament cannot guarantee adequate protection for citizens' rights in the future under ACTA.

On 26 July 2018, the Brussels Court of Appeal confirmed the judgment of the Brussels Commercial Court of 25 October 2017 on whether Longchamp, owned by the Jean Cassegrain company, had a copyright ...

It wanted to denounce Studio 100 for promoting products that are bad for children's health by licensing Maya the Bee's image for its meat products.

On 2 March 2018, the President of the Dutch-language Commercial Court of Brussels (Voorzitter van de Nederlandstalige rechtbank van koophandel te Brussel/Président ...

On 26 July 2016, the Commission made legally binding the commitments offered by Paramount Pictures as it considered that they adequately addressed its concerns regarding specific contractual clauses restricting passive sales.

The EU’s Court of Justice recently delivered a ruling that should interest enterprises exporting products either directly to or via the European Union.

The "making available to the public" right forms part of the broader concept of "communication to the public".

The Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") handed down two separate rulings on 15 March 2012 (Cases C-135/10 and C-162/10) holding that hotels making available music in their rooms are obliged to pay equitable remuneration, whilst dentists playing music in their private practice are under no such obligation.

On 26 January 2012, the Belgian Supreme Court ("Hof van Cassatie/Cour de Cassation", the "Court") handed down a judgment in a case between Artessuto NV ("Artessuto") on the one hand and B&T Textilia NV ("B&T") and Indecor-Europe NV ("Indecor") on the other.

On 12 September 2006, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered an important judgment on the interplay between national and EU copyright law, a judgment which also has implications for the interplay between IP and antitrust in the EU.

The internet has created significant challenges for rights holders seeking to prevent, or at least obtain some compensation for, the infringement of their works online.

The emergence of deepfake technology, particularly within the music industry, has sparked significant debate and concern. Deepfakes, which are synthetic media generated using AI...