AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that quotation exception is not limitless and that there is no fair use in the EU
Volker Beck (photo by Mathias Schindler CC-BY-SA) After the late 2018 Opinions in Funke Medien [ here ] and Pelham [ here ] , yesterday Advocate General Maciej (AG) Szpunar - IPKat's copyright person of the year 2018 - issued his Opinion in Spiegel Online , C-516/17 [background here ] , the third German referral asking the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to weigh in on, among other things, the interplay between copyright and other fundamental rights. The Opinion, which is not yet available in English, advises the CJEU to rule that, among other things: The exception within Article 5(3)(d) of the InfoSoc Directive requires one to consider the purpose of the quotation at issue, and Fundamental rights like freedom of expression do not allow EU Member States to go beyond the catalogue of exceptions in Article 5 therein to envisage new exceptions or even ...