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technological protection mechanism

2 case reports

14 Oct 2013

Case C-458/13, Grund and others – video games and technological protection mechanisms

Are the ‘technological protection mechanisms’ used to protect video-games and video-consoles governed by the EU’s InfoSoc Directive 2001/29/EC or the EU’s Software Directive 2009/24/EC? Facts The claimants develop, produce and sell video-games and video-games consoles including the Nintendo DS…

10 Sept 2012

Case C-355/12, Nintendo – a proportionate response to game piracy or an unjust market foreclosure? [judgment 2014, ECLI:EU:C:2014:25]

By judgment of 23 January 2014 (ECLI:EU:C:2014:25) the Court held that technological protection measures spanning both consoles and game media enjoy legal protection, but only within proportionality: the national court must examine whether comparable…