Brussels, 25/06/2012 (Agence Europe) - A member state may bring an action under national criminal law against a transporter for the offence of aiding and abetting the prohibited distribution of copyright-protected works on national territory, even where those works are not protected by copyright in the vendor's member state, ruled the Court of Justice of the EU in a judgment handed down on Thursday 21 June in case C-5/11.
The Court was responding to the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of...