Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment
C-301/15Marc Soulier and Sara Doke v Premier ministre and Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication
- Decided
- 2016-11-16
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2016:878
- CELEX
- 62015CJ0301
- Finality
- Final, the decision cannot be appealed
The court's own keywords
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Intellectual and industrial property rights — Directive 2001/29/EC — Copyright and related rights — Articles 2 and 3 — Rights of reproduction and communication to the public — Scope — ‘Out-of-print’ books which are not or no longer published — National legislation giving a collecting society rights to exploit out-of-print books for commercial purposes — Legal presumption of the authors’ consent — Lack of a mechanism ensuring authors are actually and individually informed.
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