Online Platforms In Addition To Intermediaries Inwards Copyright Law

23-24 March 2017

Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München

Intermediaries play an essential run inwards mesh communication. They let us to access the net, to central data in addition to to relish entertainment. But at the same fourth dimension their services are used yesteryear infringers. This raises the resultant of liability, specially inwards copyright law. The European Union police push clitoris framework dates dorsum to the belatedly 1990s, when modern types of intermediaries were soundless unknown. The trouble betwixt liability for master copy infringement in addition to the liability of intermediaries is hard to draw. Injunctions against intermediaries whose services are used yesteryear infringers must last available, simply European Union police push clitoris leaves the weather of such relief to the Member States. Arts 12-15 of the E-Commerce Directive supply rubber havens, which are, however, of express in addition to uncertain scope. In this normative vacuum, the CJEU has leave of absence the engine of harmonisation, creating rules in addition to principles of liability pace yesteryear pace in addition to yesteryear lawsuit in addition to error. The Commission has proposed new, simply real cautious regulation concerning copyright inwards the Digital Single Market.

Against this background, this conference volition focus on the economic, European Union law, constitutional in addition to contest police push clitoris framework, stimulate got stock of the introduce law, compare dissimilar national approaches inwards the EU, the USA in addition to Asia in addition to reckon potential ways forward.

Speakers include Joost Poort (Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam), Andreas Paulus (Federal Constitutional Court), Maciej Szpunar (Court of Justice of the European Union), Sir Richard Arnold (High Court of England and Wales), Maria Martin-Prat (EU Commission), Matthias Schmid High German Ministry of
 Justice in addition to Consumer Protection, Jonathan Griffiths Queen Mary, University
 of London and Peter Yu Texas A&M University School of Law

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