09-09-2016
In the wake of an important ruling for copyright owners and their licensees handed down by the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU), IP lawyers have told
WIPR that the decision is likely to have significant ramifications for rights owners.
The judgment was delivered yesterday, March 9, in a long-running case between visual arts society VG Bild-Kunst and virtual library Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK).
The society successfully argued that its licensee SPK should adopt technical measures preventing third parties from integrating thumbnails displaying copyrighted works via framing. Framing, known as embedding, allows third-party content to be included within an online web page.