European UnionInfopaq International A/S v Danske Dagblades Forening
Case C-5/08, judgment of 16 July 2009
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Decided 16 July 2009 by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
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The CJEU (Fourth Chamber) held that an 11-word extract from a newspaper article can be protected by copyright under Art. 2 of the InfoSoc Directive if it reflects the author's own intellectual creation, the standard that now governs all snippet reproduction across EU member states. The Court also found that Infopaq's media-monitoring data-capture process did not qualify for the transient-copy exemption (Art. 5(1)) because the printing step was not transient. This ruling is the foundational EU authority on the copyright status of news snippets used by aggregators.
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