For the purposes of the EU’s InfoSoc Directive 2001/29, are the televisions and radios found in Czech health spas communicating copyright-protected works to the public?
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Case C-449/12, van Luijk – No fingerprints? No Dutch passport.
Are the Dutch rules requiring passport applicants to be fingerprinted and to have their biometric data stored initially in local registers, and then in a central register, compatible with EU law?
Continue readingCase C-447/12, Kooistra – No fingerprints? No Dutch ID card.
Are the Dutch rules that require four fingerprints to be taken from people wishing to have a Dutch identity card compatible with EU privacy law?
Continue readingCase C-446/12, Willems – No fingerprints? No Dutch passport. No travel outside the EU.
Are the Dutch rules requiring the fingerprinting of all applicants for a Dutch passport compatible with EU law?
Continue readingCase C-355/12, Nintendo – a proportionate response to game piracy or an unjust market foreclosure?
Does Article 6 of the EU InfoSoc Directive 2001/29/EC mean that the technological protection mechanisms used to protect the copyright in video-games are legal even where they function to seal off the video-games market? [Updated]
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