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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9822

21 January 2009
Contents Publication in full By article 31 / 35
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Copyright applies uniformly across EU

Brussels, 20/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Court of Justice has ruled that copyright rules applicable in one member state on 1 July 1995 apply also in the others. Therefore, the Court found for the Sony record company, which had taken Falcon Neue Vertrieb GmbH to a German regional court and then the Bundesgerichtshof for distributing Bob Dylan songs recorded before 1966. Falcon argued that there had never been copyright for those songs in Germany, where the marketing at issue had taken...

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