No complaints if our image is taken and transmitted on TV during a public interest event. The Supreme Court has thus decided (judgment 24.10.2013 no. 24110), rejecting the complaint of a person that had complained about having been taken by a camera at Milan station during a TV service on the Gay Pride of Rome […]
Category Archives: Copyright & royalties
Music online and copyright violation
A musician that considers its copyright violated can resort to the Judge of the state where it lives if the piece has been broadcast in such a state, also if just on the Internet. Thus, a French musician, after discovering that his own songs had been pressed by an Austrian company on supports distributed in […]
Six years for a link
In Spain a law has been passed that sanctions with a penalty of up to six years of imprisonment those who favor the exchange of illegal files also through the mere indication of a link. It is true that the Spanish Penal Code foresees that such penalties are to be applied only in the case […]
Freedom of expression or copyright?
In the decision of 13 March 2013, the European Court of Human Rights has rejected the appeal filed by the founders of “The Pirate Bay”, condemned for allowing the transmission of pirated material through their famous file sharing website. The applicants claimed the right of freedom of expression. Article 10 of the European Convention on […]