Germany

[DE] State of Transposition in National Law of European Directives Harmonising Copyright Law

IRIS 1995-8:1/36

Bernhard Gemmel

Institute of European Media Law (EMR), Saarbrücken/Brussels

- Council Directive on the legal protection of computer programmes of 14 May 1991; transposed into national law by the Second Act to amend the Copyright Act, 9 July 1993 (BGBl. I S. 910);

- Council Directive 92/100/EEC of 19 November 1992 on rental and lending rights and certain rights related to copyright and Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993 on the harmonization of the term of protection of copyright and certain rights related to copyright transposed into national law by the Third Act to amend the Copyright Act, 11 May 1995 (BT-Drucksachen 13/115);

- Draft version of a Bill concerning a Fourth Act to to amend the Copyright Act Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the co-ordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable transmission (the transposition period ended on 1 January 1995).