Privatkopie Im Digitalen Zeitalter (Private Copying in the Digital Age)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Heine ◽  
Felix Laurin Stang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Private Copying

Right to Copy v. Three-Step Test

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Step Test ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Private Copying ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Right To Copy ◽  
Legal Grounds

AbstractThe emergence of the information society and the digital age have radically disturbed the balance contained in copyright law. Aware of the dangers for the exploitation of their rights created by new technical opportunities, right holders have constantly challenged the free zones within copyright. Especially the private copy exception seems to be particularlymenaced by the implementation of anti-copying measures (which are themselves protected by law) as well as by the three-step test, which seems to become a real judicial filter for the application of any exception in the digital environment. In reaction to this evolution, a real mobilization of the consumers wanting to enforce their “right of private copying” can be observed. This article analyzes whether there is such a right of the user and - if it is so - on which legal grounds. In a more general sense, it proposes a reflection on the future of the private copy exception in the digital world.

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