Getty Images files formal complaint against Google
The most important news of last week is undoubtedly Getty Images’s announcement that it had filed an own anti-trust complaint at the European Commission against Google Images.
Issues
Why Reprobel and Martin Vogel matter to picture agencies
As a consequence of the June 2015 decision of the European Court of Justice in the copyright Reprobel case, the German Supreme Court has ended a decade of practice in Germany allowing for a 50% split between publishers and rights holders. The VG-Wort v. Martin Vogel decision of the German Supreme Court, in turn, affects German picture agencies.
Getty Images to file competition law complaint against Google
Complaint, in support of the European Commission’s investigation into Google, aims to address Google’s anti-competitive practices and use of scraped third party imagery through Google Images that diminishes a fair marketplace for content creators.
Copyright Alliance Issues Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Not Hear “Google Books” Case
April 18, 2016 — Washington DC — Following the recent decision by the Supreme Court to not hear the Authors Guild v Google fair use case regarding the Google Books Project, Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid issued the following statement:
Antitrust: Commission sends Statement of Objections to Google on Android operating system and applications
The European Commission has informed Google of its preliminary view that the company has, in breach of EU antitrust rules, abused its dominant position by imposing restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators.
Sweden’s Supreme Court on the freedom of panorama
On Monday 4 April, the Swedish Supreme Court that the non-profit internet giant Wikimedia breaches Sweden’s copyright laws by publishing photos of public artworks. The ruling recognises the “commercial value” of Wikimedia’s database.
Will image search engines in France soon be obliged to pay a licensing fee for indexing images?
This could be soon the case if the proposition voted unanimously in the French Senate in February is adopted in second reading by the National Assembly on 23 March.
ICOMP Open Event on Copyright Reform
We see the Digital Single Market Strategy as great opportunity for EU legislators to be bold and to plug these two loopholes – in a way that will result in a more equitable allocation of value, between those that display images w/o permission and the creators of those images.
Unfair contract will not save the media industry!
This is the reproduction of an article published by four leading organisations in Sweden, including CEPIC member BLF, against growing unfair contractual rules imposed by media companies on freelancers.
Summary & Presentations: “Innovation in Copyright Management” RDI Project Conference 9 December
SUMMARY
The final conference of the part EU-funded copyright management project, Rights Data Integration took place in Brussels on 9 December
