Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 06/05/2014

Subject: The Court affirmed that Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society must be interpreted as meaning that the copies on the user’s computer screen and the copies in the internet ‘cache’ of that computer’s hard disk, made by an end-user in the course of viewing a website, satisfy the conditions that those copies must be temporary, that they must be transient or incidental in nature and that they must constitute an integral and essential part of a technological process, and that they may therefore be made without the authorisation of the copyright holders.

Parties: Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd c. Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd e altri

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 17 Intellectual property

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