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Post-Graduate Legal Education:
International Copyright Law (July 7 -11, 2008)

‘Copyright and Competition Law’
by Thomas Vinje

 

  • Materials to read before the course

  1. Case T-201/04, Microsoft v. European Commission, JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE (Grand Chamber) 17 September 2007.
  2. 'Commission opens proceedings into collective licensing of music copyrights for online use', Brussels, 03 May 2004, Press release.

  3. 'IMS Health Inc. v. NDC Health GmbH & Co', European Court of Justice, Case C-418/01 P(R), 29 April 2004.

  4. 'Case 238/87, AB Volvo v Erik Veng', 1989 4 C.M.L.R. 122.

  5. 'Commission Regulation (EC) No 772/2004 of 27 April 2004 on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to categories of technology transfer agreements'.

  6. 'Commission Regulation (EC) No 2790/1999 of 22 December 1999 on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices'.

  7. 'Council Directive 91/250/EEC on the legal protection of computer programs'.

  8. 'Collective Rights Management in the Online World', speech by Torben Toft, June 8 2006.

  9. 'CEC Press release CISAC'

  10. Comission Notice (EC) No. c 128/12 of 9 June 2007, 'Procedures relating to the implementation of the Competition Policy'. p.1-3.
  • Optional reading material
  1. Thomas Vinje, 'The Application of Competition Law to Collecting Societies in the a Borderless Digital Environment'.

  2. Thomas Vinje and Erik Vollebregt, 'The new technology transfer block exemption: from straitjacket to moving targets'.

  3. 'Proposed Commitments for Performing Rights under article 9 of Regulation no. 1/2003'.

 

 

 

Updated 01.06.2010