EU copyright harmonization and reform on the Digital Single Market, competition online, image search engines and the closing of the “framing loophole”, reform of collective rights management, respect of metadata, standardisation of image works identifiers.
Involvements with other organisations include:
In this section, you will find current News related to the above fields.
Our position papers, key statements and other resources may be found in the relevant sub-sections or in the Login Member area of the Cepic website.
Collective management of rights -
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.
Google Antitrust -
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.
Google Antitrust -
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.
Issues -
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:
IPR & Copyright -
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.
Internet Piracy -
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.
IPR & Copyright -
Picture Market -
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.
EU projects -
SUMMARY The final conference of the part EU-funded copyright management project, Rights Data Integration took place in Brussels on 9 December
EU projects -
Today in Brussels, 9 December, on the day that the European Commission published its long-awaited Communication: “Towards a modern, more European Copyright Framework”, RDI, the part-EU-funded digital copyright project, held a conference to showcase the significant innovation in managing copyright online it has developed over a two-year period.
Issues -
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