Enforcing copyright in government documents? Not as uncommon as one might think
It was just a few days ago that Advocate General Szpunar issued his Opinion [discussed here ] in the important Afghanistan Papers case, ie Funke Medien , C-469/17 . This is a referral from Germany asking about the interplay between copyright protection and fundamental rights, notably freedom of information and freedom of the press. Pending all this, some interesting news comes from Germany. The IPKat is happy to host the ‘alert’ below, as provided by Katfriend Mathias Schindler (as of September 2018, an assistant to Anke Domscheit-Berg ). Here’s what Mathias writes: The MDR (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk) is one of nine German regional public broadcasters, covering the three Länder of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. Like other regional broadcasters, it has its own TV channel and also contributes content to the TV channels within the ARD joint organisational structure. On October 20, 2015, the MDR did broadcast a TV piece regarding the Glyphosate risk assessment and a study ...