AG Szpunar says that time-limited e-lending is allowed under EU law and interpretation of copyright norms must evolve with technology
AG Maciej Szpunar Are libraries allowed to lend electronic books in their collections under the Rental and Lending Rights Directive ? If so, under what conditions? Is there such thing as digital exhaustion under the InfoSoc Directive ? As to the latter, we know - via UsedSoft [Katposts here ] there that there is such thing under the Software Directive , but whether this is also true for the principal copyright directive has been debated for a while [with some possible hints provided by Allposters , here , although not everybody agrees: see below ] . Those above are - in a nutshell - the questions currently pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken v Stichting Leenrecht , C-174/15, a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Den Haag (District Court of The Hague, Netherlands). This reference has arise...