Type: Opinion of Advocate General

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 06/05/2014

Subject: According to the Advocate General, a Member State may authorise libraries to digitise, without the consent of the rightholders, books they hold in their collection so as to make them available at electronic reading points. While the Copyright Directive does not allow Member States to authorise users to save a book digitised by a library onto a USB stick, it does not prevent, in principle, the book from being printed as a private copy.

Parties: Technische Universität Darmstadt / Eugen Ulmer KG

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 17 Intellectual property

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