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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11188
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COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / (ae) copyright

Framing of a freely available work needs no authorisation

Brussels, 30/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - “Framing”, that is, using a hyperlink to superimpose a protected work (in the case at issue, a video) freely available on another site (YouTube), is not a “communication to the public” and so does not require the permission of the author.

That was the ruling delivered by the Court of Justice of the EU on Tuesday 21 October in the form of an order since it was identical in all points to the judgment in a previous case (ruling C-466/12 of 13...

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