Brussels, 03/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - The author of a protected work reproduced online without his/her knowledge may begin an action for damages resulting from an unauthorised online offer of reproductions of his/her work in the courts for the place where he/she is domiciled.
With this judgment, delivered on 3 October (case C-170/12), the Court of Justice responds to the French Cour de cassation (Court of Cassation) which had asked it to interpret Regulation 44/2001 on jurisdiction. In...