German news on the EU liability concept for indirect infringers of copyright: A push forward by the BGH for communication to the public – and a step back for reproduction – Go Health Pro

German news on the EU liability concept for indirect infringers of copyright: A push forward by the BGH for communication to the public – and a step back for reproduction – Go Health Pro

Image by Ronile from Pixabay There is news from Germany on the EU liability concept for indirect infringers. The German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) has ruled on the liability of online marketplaces for copyright infringement by their users when uploading copyright infringing photographs. This is the BGH judgment of 23 October 2024 – … Read more

On the concept of ‘operator’ triggering due diligence requirements in the EU’s Timber Regulation EUTR. – gavc law – geert van calster – Go Health Pro

On the concept of ‘operator’ triggering due diligence requirements in the EU’s Timber Regulation EUTR. – gavc law – geert van calster – Go Health Pro

In Case C-70/23 Mesto Rimavská Sobota the CJEU held on 21 November on an important trigger for many an EU product- and import /export related environmental regulation. In the case at issue the context is the EU Timber Regulation 995/2010 also known as ‘EUTR’. The EUTR in essence aims to prevent illegally harvested timber from … Read more

Exploring Intersectionality as a Concept to Effectively Combat Racism and Racial and Ethnic Discrimination – Verfassungsblog – Go Health Pro

This contribution aims to highlight the shortcomings of European and International anti-racism law with respect to discriminations based on nationality. It promotes the concept of intersectionality as a means of addressing the gap between what anti-racism law promises and what it delivers. Therefore, nationality serves as an example to show if and how intersectionality can … Read more

Analysis: “The Concept of an exempt Investment Fund, from the Perspective of Investor Risk (X and Others, Joined Cases C‑639/22 and C‑644/22” – Go Health Pro

Analysis: “The Concept of an exempt Investment Fund, from the Perspective of Investor Risk (X and Others, Joined Cases C‑639/22 and C‑644/22” – Go Health Pro

The case concerns Dutch pension funds, some of which are compulsory occupational pension funds, sectoral pension funds and company pension funds, and the question of whether these pension funds are regarded as investment funds whose management is exempt from VAT under Article 135(1)(g) of the VAT Directive. The pension funds in question had contracted the … Read more

the CJEU first interprets the concept – Go Health Pro

the CJEU first interprets the concept – Go Health Pro

  Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: viewsridge, via Wikimedia commons   Introduction Along with judgments on Afghan women asylum seekers (discussed here) and the status of Turkey as a ‘safe third country’ (discussed here), the Court of Justice of the European Union recently gave its first judgment interpreting the substance … Read more

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