Brussels, 08/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - Television companies may ban other companies from broadcasting their programmes on the internet because such retransmission constitutes, under certain conditions, “a communication to the public” of works which must be authorised by their author, ruled the European Court of Justice on Thursday 7 March in Case C-607/11.
The Court of Justice was asked by the High Court of Justice (England & Wales) whether there was a “communication to the public,”...