Brussels, 22/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - Substantial alteration to the physical format of a pictorial work does not exhaust the distribution right, even when the creator has given consent to the marketing of the work in its initial format, according to the ruling (case C-149/13) handed down by the Court of Justice of the EU on Thursday 22 January.
The case in question opposed a company for the collective management of copyright (Pictoright) and a company (Allposters) which markets copies of...