Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment
C-484/14Tobias Mc Fadden v Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH
- Decided
- 2016-09-15
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2016:689
- CELEX
- 62014CJ0484
- Finality
- Final, the decision cannot be appealed
The court's own keywords
Reference for a preliminary ruling — Information society — Free movement of services — Commercial wireless local area network (WLAN) — Made available to the general public free of charge — Liability of intermediary service providers — Mere conduit — Directive 2000/31/EC — Article 12 — Limitation of liability — Unknown user of the network — Infringement of rights of rightholders over a protected work — Duty to secure the network — Tortious liability of the trader.
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