Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd and others v Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted June 11th, 2014 in copyright, internet, law reports, licensing by sally

Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd and others v Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd (Case C‑360/13); ECLI:EU:C:2014:910; [2014] WLR (D) 244

‘Article 5 of Parliament and Council Directive 2001/29/EC of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society meant that the copies on a user’s computer screen and the copies in the Internet “cache” of that computer’s hard disk, made by an end-user in the course of viewing a website, satisfied the conditions that those copies had to be temporary, that they had to be transient or incidental in nature and that they had to constitute an integral and essential part of a technological process, as well as the conditions laid down in article 5(5) of that Directive, and that they could therefore be made without the authorisation of the copyright holders.’

WLR Daily, 5th June 2014

Source: www.iclr.co.uk