The German law introducing a neighbouring right related to copyright for newspaper publishers has been definitively invalidated by the Court of Justice of the European Union. In a judgment delivered on Thursday 12 September (case No. C-299/17), the judges in Luxembourg considered that this law was obsolete, since the European Commission had not been notified of the German law.
As a result, the American giant Google escapes penalties for having published, from 2013, news snippets without...