Posted by Gianluigi Marino on Monday 16 Apr 2012
After the recent issues on TV format rights the debate is now ignited over film producers' rights.
Posted by Alessandro Ferrari on Tuesday 27 Mar 2012
Italy has two years to transpose the new European directive concerning the extension of the protection of the rights of performers and phonogram producers on music recordings within the EU from the current 50 years to 70 years.
[Read More]Posted by Gianluigi Marino on Tuesday 27 Sep 2011
Follow us at the Italian Digital Media Forum on Wednesday 25 May 2011 at the Sole24Ore in Milan. [Read More]
Posted by Giangiacomo Olivi on Tuesday 24 May 2011
A UK Court has recently issued a decision which may have an impact on the online news market. According to the Court, providers of paid news monitoring and aggregation services which send their customers links to news published by others commit an act of copyright infringement if they do not obtain the consent from the relevant publishers.[Read More]
Posted by Alessandro Ferrari on Wednesday 08 Dec 2010
The European Court of Justice has issued an interesting decision banning in B2B transactions the so called "private copy levy" i.e. the EU Copyright Directive allows EU Member States to introduce an excepction to the exclusive right of authors, performers and producers to reproduce sound, visual or audiovisual material in relation to copies of such material performed for private purposes. However, the "private copying" can be authorised only if rightholders obtain a "fair compensation".[Read More]
Posted by Giulio Coraggio on Friday 22 Oct 2010