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Case Law C-160/15 (08/09/2016)

Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 09/08/2016

Subject: The Court affirmed that the posting of a hyperlink on a website to works protected by copyright and published without the author’s consent on another website does not constitute a ‘communication to the public’ when the person who posts that link does not seek financial gain and acts without knowledge that those works have been published illegally. In contrast, if those hyperlinks are provided for profit, knowledge of the illegality of the publication on the other website must be presumed

Parties: GS Media

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 17 Intellectual property

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