Short review of the evolution of the CJEU's case law on the right of communication to the public: from SGAE - through TvCatchup, Svensson and Bestwater - to GS Media and Soulier
2018-06-26
2018-06-26
In the short paper – based on an optimistic reading of the CJEU’s subsequent decisions on the concept and right of communication to the public – it is reviewed how the Court has made honest attempts to try to neutralize the negative effects of the badly founded „new public” criterion (adopted as a result of certain defective aspects of the current preliminary rulings system that do not guarantee fully and duly informed judgments).