Enforcing the EU Communication to the Public Right in Cases of Ubiquitous Infringement

Koo, Justin

Enforcing the EU Communication to the Public Right in Cases of Ubiquitous Infringement

‘Enforcing the EU Communication to the Public Right in Cases of Ubiquitous Infringement’ in P Torremans, Research Handbook on Copyright (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017)

21 Pages Posted: 28 May 2020

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Justin Koo

The University of the West Indies, St Augustine

Date Written: 2017

Abstract

The exclusive right of communication to the public has grown in importance with developments in technology, in particular the internet. An act of communication to the public committed via the internet has the potential to be ubiquitous. However, EU copyright law remains territorial in nature. Thus, this creates the issue of how to reconcile the ubiquitous nature of communication to the public infringement with the EU’s territorially oriented rules concerning copyright law, jurisdiction and applicable law.

Keywords: copyright, communication to the public, access vs transmission, ubiquitous infringement, copyright jurisdiction, copyright enforcement

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Koo, Justin, Enforcing the EU Communication to the Public Right in Cases of Ubiquitous Infringement (2017). ‘Enforcing the EU Communication to the Public Right in Cases of Ubiquitous Infringement’ in P Torremans, Research Handbook on Copyright (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3589738