The posting on a website of a photograph that was already freely accessible on another website with the consent of the author and with no warning of any restrictions on use requires a new authorisation, the Court of Justice of the EU has ruled in a judgment returned on Tuesday 7 August (case C-161/17).
In 2009, a German school in the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia published on its website a report by a pupil that contained a photograph taken by a Mr Renckhoff. Based on the copyright...