Copyright and Circumvention of Geoblocking, the CJEU Removes the Responsibility of VPNs
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The CJEU has just removed the responsibility of VPN providers when an Internet user bypasses geoblocking to access a protected work. If filtering is insufficient, it is to the person who published it to answer for it.
This is good news! The Court of Justice of the European Union has just handed down a judgment on 9 July which states that bypassing a geoblocking with a VPN does not make you a pirate. And believe me, our favorite legal successors will not love it. Moreover, this whole case is a little jewel of legal bizarrery. Anne Frank's manuscripts are protected by copyright in the Netherlands until 2037, but they have already fallen into the public domain i…
The diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish German girl, written during World War II, was made publicly available online in 2016, 70 years after Anne's death at the age of 15 in a concentration camp in 1945. In a recent case concerning this diary, the EU Supreme Court ruled that "if geo-blocking technology was used to restrict access by region, the publisher is not liable even if users circumvent the restrictions using a VPN." Read more...
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