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COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS
AUSTRIA
Tarifvertrag 2001 Oesterreich fuer Redakteure/Link fuer Freie
Austria
DENMARK
Collective Agreement Different Danish Newspapers
GERMANY
Collective Agreement MTV
Tarifvertrag über die Urheberrechte arbeitnehmerähnlicher Personen des Norddeutschen Rundfunks
Germany
SWEDEN
Transnational Collective Agreement
Copyright for staff journalists in Sweden
SAMPLE CONTRACTS
Freelance Photographen – Model Release
Germany
About Publishing Com – Sample Contracts
Anglo American Law
LEGAL ISSUES
WORLDWIDE
Complete Content of the Current Copyright Law by Country
Access to National Authors’ Rights and Neighbouring Rights Legislation Worldwide, regularly updated
UNESCO
LAW
More Specific Issues by Country
ARAB COUNTRIES
- Agip News on Arab Intellectual Property Issues, 5
Arab Countries - Agip News on Arab Intellectual Property Issues, 6
Arab Countries
AUSTRIA
- Urheberrecht in der Informationsgesellschaft
Reinhard Schanda
Austria - Case USA/Austria
Kirkland Attempts to Curtail Press Freedom in Justicefiles.org Case Austria/USA - Oest Presserat:
Rechtsgutachten ueber Urheberrecht Austria
AUSTRALIA
- Australian Copyright News
LegalMediaGroup
Australia - Employed Journalists
Amendments
Australia - Parallel Importation
Copyright Amendment, May 2001
Australia
BAHRAIN
-Copyright Law
Bahrain
BELGIUM
- Journalisme et Droit d Auteur en Belgique
Belgique
BULGARIA
- Bulgarian Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act
Bulgaria
CANADA
- IP-Glossary of Terms
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Canada - Copyright Reform Process
Canada - Canadian Copyright Battle Tests TV on Internet
Canada - Canadian Copyright Law Review Threatens JumpTV Plans
Canada - Contracts and Copyright
Canada
CHILE
- Derechos de Autor Congreso de Chile con links para toda Latinamerica
Chile/Latinamerica
CHINA
- Advances in the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in China, by Guoqiang Lu
- China detains son of anti-American writer over Internet posting
COLOMBIA
- Proyecto de Ley 2001
Colombia
CONGO
- Loi sur la Liberté de Presse 1996
Congo
CUBA
- Faint Voices Rise From Cuba By Julia Scheeres
Cuba
DENMARK
- Lego: Stealing from the Maori ?
Denmark - “Denmark Plans to Legalize Music Downloading,” IDG News, May 4, 2001
Denmark
EGYPT
-Copyright Law
Egypt
EUROPE – THE COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE
- EFJ Statement on the draft Copyright Directive EU
- The Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society EU
- Entscheidungen des EUGH zum Urheberrecht EU
- Amendments on the Boselli Report EU
EUROPE GENERAL
- Institute for European Media Law – Legal Links EU
- IPR Aspects of Internet Collaboration, EU -IPR Heldesk, Workshop Report EU
- Le droit moral en droit communautaire dans la societe de l information – un maitrise de Karin Ardault EU
FRANCE
-La Voix du Nord : malentendu sur les droits d’auteurs (28/03/2002)
France
-Droit de copie : «Réparer une injustice»
France
- Entire French web to be archived
France
-Droits d’Auteurs pour artistes en France
France
- Accord d’entreprise sur les droits d’auteur de la société Tribune Desfosses
France - Accord d’entreprise sur les droits d’auteurs de la société EMAP
France - Accord droits d’auteur signé par Le Figaro le 6/7/00
France - Accord d’entreprise sur les droits d’auteur des journalistes (web) signé par le Groupe Express le 30/6/00 (Texte)
France - Accord DNA (texte)
France - Accord Le Monde janvier 2000 (texte)
France
GERMANY
- Neues Urheberrecht tritt 1/07/02 in Kraft
Germany - Medienrecht
Sammlung
Germany - Copyright im Internet
Klaus Peuckert
Germany - Urhebervertragsrecht
Institut fuer Urheber- und Medienrecht
Referenten – Entwurf
Germany - Urhebervertragsrecht – Professoren – Entwurf Deutschland
Mehr dazu/Institut fuer Urheber-und Medienrecht:
Germany - Urhebervertragsrecht – Vorschlag aus der Medienwirtschaft
Germany - Keine Haftung für Hyperlinks in einer Linksammlung
Germany
HUNGARY
-Harsh Hungarian Copyright Laws
Hungary
- Hungarian Socialist party says ‘no’ to media law amendment
Hungary
INTERNATIONAL
-List of International Copyright Conventions
International
- International Copyright Map
IFRRO
INTERNET
-:) Kein Urheberrecht auf Smiley 🙁
Internet
- Inundated with Offers for Legal Research Services on the Internet?Sorting out the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Internet
IRAN
-Copyright Law
Iran
IRAQ
-Copyright Law
Iraq
ISRAEL
- Jewish Law and Copyright
Israel
JAPAN
-Copyright Law Amended
Japan
JORDAN
-Copyright Law
Jordan
KUWAIT
-Copyright Law
Kuwait
LEBANON
-Copyright Law
Lebanon
MALAYSIA
- Malaysia tells Internet newspaper not to endanger security
Malaysia
MEXICO
- El derecho y la libertad de expresión en México, debates y reflexiones
Mexico
-Intellectual Property Issues in Mexico by the Legal Media Group
Mexico
MOLDOVA
-Intellectual Property Jurisdiction
Moldovan Dniester Republic
NEW ZEALAND
- Short summary of recent developments in NZ Copyright Law by Tim Jones
- Journalists continue strike
Herald journalists back on job
Journalists call for web boycott
New pay offer for striking journalists
New Zealand
-Lego: Stealing from the Maori ?
New Zealand
OMAN
-Copyright Law
Oman
PAKISTAN
- SSS sued Prime and others for copyright infringement.
The court granted Prime’s motion to dismiss.
Pakistan
PORTUGAL
- Droits d’Auteurs Portugais. Article 174: Exception pour les journalistes
(Portugais/Francais),
Portugal
QATAR
-Copyright Law
Qatar
SAUDI ARABIA
-Copyright Law
Saudi Arabia
SOUTH AFRICA
- Cyberlaw in South Africa by Steven Liversedge, InternetNews.com
South Africa
SPAIN
- Spain proposes legislation on information society and e-commerce
Spain
- Fears of a Website Inquisition
Spain
TAIWAN
- Threats of Action for Intellectual Property Right Infringement
Taiwan
TURKEY
- International press group condemns internet law
Turkey
UKRAINE
- Ukraine tops IP-infringement list
Ukraine
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
-Copyright Law
United Arab Emirates
UNITED KINGDOM
-Guidelines for Fair Dealing in an Electronic Environment, Joint Information Systems Committee and the Publishers Association
United Kingdom
Rechtsproblem: Online Archive, The Times
United Kingdom
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- The Digital Millenium Copyright Act 1998
US Copyright Office Summary
USA - Controversy on the Digital Millenium Act – two cases
USA - Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works
USA - American Inventors Protection Act of 1999
USA - History of US copyright [ Download document in WORD format
USA - Moral Rights Basics
by Betsy Rosenblatt, Harvard Law School
USA - The Growth & Development of Cyberspace Law in the United States: Highlights of the Past Decade
The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy
USA - Standard Journalism Contract,NWU
USA - Work-for-Hire Contract
USA - Deciding Whether to Prosecute an Intellectual Property Case
David Goldstone, USA Bulletin, (March 2001)
USA - URAA, GATT Amendments to U.S. Law
US Copyright Office
USA
GATT Renews Copyright in Works of Foreign Origin
USA
- Case USA/Austria
Kirkland Attempts to Curtail Press Freedom in Justicefiles.org Case Austria/USA - Prosecuting Intellectual Property Crimes Manual
Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS)
USA - The 411 on Copyright for Net Photos,
by Kathleen Brockel
USA
JURISDICTION
The editorial freedom of journalists is essential. The public should be able to trust that journalists are not influenced by economic interests when they do consumer surveys, comment on business affairs, evaluate new cars, taste wines etc.
Journalists and photographers need moral and economic authors rights to be able to exercise influence on the use of their articles, photographs etc. especially regarding use outside the normal editorial environment.
Legal proceedings of the type dealt with below are instigated by individual journalists, photographers etc. primarily owing to the wish to protect his/her editorial integrity, and to protect his/her sources from being photographed/quoted in any circumstances other than those to which such sources agreed originally.
Legal proceedings concerning damages for non-financial claims are often combined with claims for compensation for financial infringements.
SIGNIFICANT COURT CASES COUNTRY BY COUNTRY
AUSTRALIA
- White and Yellow Pages – TelstraAustralia
AUSTRIA
- Urheberrechtsfaelle, Medien & Recht.comAustria
- Agentur gewinnt Streit um Content-Piraterie/Oktober 2000 Austria
BELGIUM
- Les journalistes et l’Internet – Cyberlex (Tribunal de Première Instance de Bruxelles 16 octobre 1996) Belgium
- Women.com sued over plagiarism, theregister.co.uk Belgium
CANADA
- “The Southam Case” Canada
CUBA
- Cuban veteran photographer wins copyright battle Cuba
DENMARK
- Bank uses journalistic article for advertising Denmark
- Film and Journalism Denmark
- AIDS fotos used in tabloid paper Denmark
- Investment Company and Journalists Denmark
- Press foto and Integrity Denmark
- Abuse of Article and Drawing Denmark
- Odense Plastic Windows Case Denmark
- Election Brochure Denmark
ESTONIA
- Dissemination of Information, November 6th, 1996 Estonia
GERMANY
- Entscheidungen Urheberrecht Germany
- Gericht bescheinigt dem FOCUS “Verschleierung der Verletzung von Urheberrechten” Germany
- Photojournalists win court case against Tagesspiegel (14/10/1999)Germany
- Elektronischer Pressespiegel und Urheberrecht Germany
- Süddeutsche Zeitung, DJV-Newsletter, 5. Februar 2001 Germany
- “Wie werden Pressefotos rechtlich geschützt?” Germany
- Papstfoto entfremdet Germany
- Online Wiederverwertung von Fotos/ Urteil des Berliner Kammergerichts Germany
- Names on Articles Germany
- Distorted Photography Germany
- Economical Loss – Authors’ Names missing Germany
FRANCE
-Jurisprudence DNA
-Le “Cas Rillon”
-Jurisprudence Progrès
- Appel Progrès
- Jurisprudence Figaro
JAPAN
- Supreme Court found no Originality on Typeface Japan
THE NETHERLANDS
- Volkskrant Freelancers, September 1997 The Netherlands
SWEDEN
- Moral and Economic Arguments for Artists Sweden
SPAIN
- Sentencia Propriedad Intelectual Spain
UNITED KINGDOM
- Marks and Spencer wins second round in news clipping copyright fightUnited Kingdom
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- NWU against Publishing Industry, by Jonathan Tasini
- Playboy Vs Dumas [ Download document in WORD format ]
- US Visual Artists Case [ Download document in WORD format ]
Court Upholds Logo Copyright Claim
Court Backs Artist in NFL Logo Suit
- Free Advice? Not So Fast
Advice Web Site Says Firm Stole Its Content Cleveland Plain Dealer , by Find Legal News - Campbell vs Atcuff Rose, by Edward Samuels
- Harlan Ellison vs America Online, RemarQ, etc…
- Bartnicki versus Kopper USA
- Boston Globe Freelancers Association, February 1997 USA
- IP Law Cases -Cybercrime.Gov.Homepage USA
- Cyber Law Journal: Questioning Continues in Copyright Suit USA
- Lost with the National Geographic USA
- Foley v. Luster (11th Cir 05/02/2001) USA
- The “Tarzan” Case 1
The “Tarzan” Case 2 USA - Earth Flag LTD against Alamo Flag,EBay … USA
- Nike fights plagiarism claims in US court USA
- University sues Adult Web Site USA
- A Critical Examination of the Stooges Case by Stephen Barnett,
for further details have a look at IP-Notes from Margie Schweitzer - D Md – Internet service provider let off the hook for copyright claims
ALS Scan Inc v. Digital Service Consultants (D Md 05/18/2001) USA - Who owns John Sutherland? – Online Archives USA
- Preempted state law claims converted into copyright claims,
USA - SD NY – Mere use of photograph on product label does not imply sponsorship.USA
Sidney A; Rosenzweig, Dont put my article online!
ExtendingCopyrights New-Use Doctrine to the Electronic Publishing Media and Beyond 143, Univ. of Pa. Law. Rev. 899? January 1995.