An address by any other name? AG Øe advises CJEU to rule that 'address' does not include email and IP addresses
Physical address Can a rightholder request, under Article 8(2)(a) of the Enforcement Directive , an online platform to provide personal contact details (more precisely: email addresses, telephone numbers, and IP addresses) of users of such platform who have infringed its copyrights? This, in a nutshell, is the question at the heart of the referral in Constantin Film v YouTube , C-264/19 , currently pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). A few days ago, Advocate General (AG) Saugmandsgaard Øe issued his Opinion , substantially answering in the negative (at least from an EU perspective). The referral is important for two key reasons ... plus one. First, because this is yet another case – recent instances being the 2019 Grand Chamber rulings in Funke Medien , Spiegel Online , and Pelham [Katposts here , here , and here ] – in which the CJEU will be required to balance different fundamental rights: here it is, on the one hand, co