N IF A PHOTO IS AVAILABLE ON A WEBSITE, PUBLISHING IT ON ANOTHER WEBSITE REQUIRES THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S AUTHORIZATION, THE ECJ HELD
August 7, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that “the posting on a website of a photograph that was freely accessible on another website with the consent of the author requires a new authorisation by that author”.
With the request for preliminary ruling, the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice, Germany) asked the CJEU to interpret the Copyright Directive (Directive 2001/29/EC), according to which the author of a work has the exclusive right to authorize Read more [...]