BREAKING: CJEU Grand Chamber says what to consider in communication to the public cases
Back in February this blog reported that after hotels [ here ] , dentist waiting rooms [ here ] , and spas [ here ] , the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) had been asked to say whether the making available of TV broadcasts in rehabilitation centres should be regarded as an act of communication to the public . The case is Reha Training , C-117/15, a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Köln (Regional Court, Cologne) asking essentially whether [the questions in full can be accessed here ] : the making available of TV broadcasts by means of TV sets on the premises of a rehabilitation centre falls within the scope of Article 3(1) of the InfoSoc Directive and Article 8(2) of the Rental and Lending Rights Directive ; and the concept of ‘communication to the public’ for the purposes of those two provisions must be given a uniform interpretation. This...