Brussels, 06/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - A portrait photo enjoys identical protection to that conferred by copyright on any other work. However, the media may publish such a photograph, without the consent of its author, if the object of its publication is to assist the police in a criminal investigation to find a missing person.
This judgement was delivered on Thursday 1 December by the EU Court of Justice in Case C-145/10, in response to the Handelsgericht Wien (Vienna Commercial Court),...