[The Ipkat] Breaking: Cjeu Rules Inwards That The Making Available Of Copies Of Boob Tube Programmes Saved Inwards The Cloud Must Survive Authorised Yesteryear Rights Possessor

From Eleonora Rosati writing on the IPKat

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Further to the here], this forenoon the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in VCAST, C-265/16.

This was a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Turin Court of First Instance (Italy), seeking guidance on the application of the private copying exception inside Article 5(2)(b) of the InfoSoc Directive to cloud-based video recording services. 

More specifically: does European Union police prohibit a commercial task from providing - without the potency of the relevant copyright possessor - private individuals with cloud computing services for the remote video recording of private copies of industrial plant protected past times copyright, past times agency of that commercial undertaking’s active interest inward the recording?

The AG provided a sophisticated reply to this question, substantially lastly that the exception - piece beingness applicable also inward instances involving  the intervention of a political party other than the straight beneficiary - requires inward whatever illustration that the user/beneficiary has lawful access to the piece of employment that he/she copies.

The CJEU judgment - which is non even then available on the Curia website - seems to side amongst the AG's conclusions. However it appears that the CJEU judgment focuses to a greater extent than extensively on the analysis of the correct of communication/making available to the populace inside Article iii of the InfoSoc Directive than what the AG Opinion does.

According to the press release:

"By today’s judgment, the Court finds that the service provided past times VCAST has a dual functionality, consisting inward ensuring both the reproduction too the making available of protected works.

To the extent that the service offered past times VCAST consists inward the making available of protected works, it falls inside communication to the public. In that regard, the Court recalls that, according to the directive, whatever communication to the public, including the making available of a protected piece of employment or subject-matter, requires the rightholder’s consent, given that the correct of communication of industrial plant to the populace should live understood, inward a wide sense, equally roofing whatever transmission or retransmission of a piece of employment to the populace past times wire or wireless means, including broadcasting.

The Court takes the sentiment that the master transmission made past times the broadcasting organisation, on the 1 hand, too that made past times VCAST, on the other, are made nether specific technical conditions, using a unlike agency of transmission for the protected works, too each is intended for its public. 

The Court concludes that the (re)transmission made past times VCAST constitutes a communication to a unlike populace from that of the master transmission too must thus have the consent ofthe copyright possessor or holder of related rights. Accordingly, such a remote recording service cannot autumn inside the private copying exception."

A to a greater extent than detailed analysis volition live provided equally presently equally the judgment becomes available: remain tuned!