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What Does BestWater Decision Mean For Future of Embedding?

Hutko
posted on November 1, 2014
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I guess most of you already heard the news that CJEU recently in BestWater C-348/13 allegedly discharged embedding from copyright consent. Some media already started celebrating “this landmark ruling” and some attorneys commenting on consequences with confidence (e.g. here at FAZ). I would personally still wait with any “embedding-is-free-parties”. CJEU decided BestWater

Posted in copyright, Court of Justice, EU, InfoSocD, US

Functionality & Expression-Idea Dichotomy Under New European Doctrine of ´Work´

Hutko
posted on November 11, 2011
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Some of readers might be aware of a pending copyright case Oracle v. Google in the United States. It looks like Oracle is trying to rely on copyright protection of the following subject matter (quoted from Groklaw): .. its “selection, arrangement and structure” of elements in the APIs described by the 37 API specifications ..