02/09/2019 (Agence Europe) – The Court of Justice of the European Union is due to rule on German law on related rights of copyright on Thursday 12 September. The judges in Luxembourg will have to indicate whether the national rules prohibiting search engines from providing press extracts without prior authorisation from the publisher (with the exception of isolated words or very short extracts from texts) are in conformity with EU law. The new Copyright Directive 2019/790, applicable from 2021, generally introduces such a provision at Community level. But here, the preliminary question of the Landgericht Berlin concerns rather the absence of notification of the draft legislation to the European Commission. In December 2018, the Advocate General considered that this absence invalidated the German provisions adopted in 2013, but put on hold because of the legal proceedings. (SPj)