Italian Supreme Court says that the quotation exception in copyright law only applies to partial reproductions of works, never to works in their entirety
Kat- quotation There is little doubt that one of the most (if not the most) significant exceptions in copyright law is the one relating to quotation, criticism or review. Despite it being admittedly a ‘right to quote’ from the perspective of Article 10(1) of the Berne Convention , under EU law quotation is one of the traditionally optional exceptions found inter alia in Article 5 of the InfoSoc Directive , specifically Article 5(3)(d). This is a provision which, according to the CJEU ( Painer ), has the same material scope of its Berne counterpart. While not all Member States took advantage of the possibility under Article 5(3)(d) of the InfoSoc Directive, with the transposition of Article 17 of the DSM Directive into national laws, all Member States shall be required to introduce exceptions allowing quotation, criticism and review, at least insofar as Article 17-related activities are concerned. All this is testimony to the importance of ...
