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VG Bild-Kunst: framing images from a digital library

Decision date · 9 March 2021

Context photograph: Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Context photograph: Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg. FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

A collecting society sought a licensing condition requiring technical protection against framing.

The decision

The EU court held that embedding protected works while circumventing effective anti-framing measures can be a communication to the public.

Source

CJEU · C-392/19

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