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distribution

2 case reports

12 Jul 2015

Case C-174/15, Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken – ebooks via Dutch public libraries [judgment 2016, ECLI:EU:C:2016:856]

On 10 November 2016 the Court ruled (ECLI:EU:C:2016:856) that the public-lending exception can cover the lending of e-books on the one-copy-one-user model, digital lending being within the Rental and Lending Directive.

8 Jul 2015

Case C-490/14, Verlag Esterbauer – a map is not a database [judgment 2015, ECLI:EU:C:2015:735]

By judgment of 29 October 2015 (ECLI:EU:C:2015:735) the Court held that geographical data extracted from a topographic map retain sufficient autonomous informative value to be "independent materials", so a map can constitute a database within the Database…