Publication of two opinions of the European Copyright Society on pending cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (Cases C-310/17 Levola Hengelo and C-476/17 Hutter v Pelham)
On 5 March 2018, the European Copyright Society has published two new opinions on two pending cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union, one regarding a Request for a preliminary ruling from the Gerechtshof Arnhem-Leeuwarden (Netherlands) lodged on 29 May 2017 (C-310/17) on the copyright protection for tastes and another on a Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 4 August 2017 (C-476/17 Hutter v Pelham, also known as “Metall auf Metall”) on the legal assessment of the sampling of a small sequence of a copyright protected work in a hip hop song.
The two opinions are accessible at https://europeancopyrightsociety.org/how-the-ecs-works/ecs-opinions/
Christophe Geiger, Professor at the University of Strasbourg and Director General of the CEIPI, has participated to the drafting of the Opinion on sampling. He is a founding member of the European copyright society and has been its Chair from 2014- 2015.
The European Copyright Society (ECS) was founded in January 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for independent scholarly thinking on European Copyright Law. Its members are scholars and academics from various countries of Europe, seeking to promote their views of the overall public interest regarding the construction of European Copyright law.
Further ECS Opinions can be accessed on the web site of the ECS.