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Refine your searchIRIS 1998-10:1/31 [LU] Film Co-Production Agreement and Film Support in Luxembourg | |
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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Republic of Austria signed an agreement on bilateral relations in the audiovisual sector in Vienna on 23 January 2006. Under the agreement, films that are co-produced by Luxembourgian and Austrian film makers will in future be treated in the same way as domestic films as long as one of the partners is responsible for at least 20% of the overall film costs. Film producers in both countries are therefore granted full access to the respective national state privileges, such as tax advantages and preferential treatment in relation to film aid. Luxembourg has been... |
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IRIS 1998-10:1/2 [AT] Internet and Copyright - Supreme Court Decides | |
A decision given in mid-August by the Supreme Court on an application for an interim injunction dealt for the first time with copyright law aspects of the use of works on the World-Wide Web (WWW). The proceedings originated in a contract concluded in 1984 between the widow of the writer, Konrad Bayer (1932-1964), and a publisher. In this contract, Mrs Bayer assigned "sole and exclusive publication rights in all impressions and editions" of her late husband's entire literary output to the publisher in question. The nature of the rights assigned was clarified by a list of the uses covered. An injunction... |
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IRIS 1998-9:1/12 [AT] High Court on Retransmission of Broadcast Programmes in a Hotel | |
The facts of the case were as follows : the defendant runs a hotel. The hotel rooms are equipped with television sets capable of showing not only the terrestrial channels broadcast by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) but also programmes from the ASTRA satellite picked up by a satellite dish installed on the hotel roof. These programmes are selected, processed and amplified in an indoor unit and fed over a coaxial cable to the individual hotel rooms after demodulation and conversion. The plaintiff, a collection society, requested that the defendant be required to render an account or... |
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IRIS 1998-8:1/14 [AT] High Court Revises its Jurisprudence on Copyright Damages | |
Whoever by acting in breach of copyright law ( Urheberrechtgesetz-UrhG) culpably does prejudice to another has to pay damages to the injured party under § 87 UrhG. This claim for damages under copyright law has several special features vis-a-vis general liability law : for example, the wrongdoer has to pay the injured party for loss of earnings without consideration of the degree of liability (para 1) ; furthermore the injured party may call for appropriate compensation for intangible prejudice not covered by pecuniary loss suffered (para 2) and as compensation for pecuniary damage suffered, if... |
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IRIS 1998-6:1/5 [AT] Are Website Names Protected? Not Necessarily, Says Court | |
In February, the Austrian Supreme Court (Gerichtshof) found itself confronted - apparently for the first time - with the problem of website names. The situation which led to its judgment was as follows. BONLINE Software GmbH (renamed JUSLINE GmbH during the proceedings) specialises in developing and providing Internet services which can be used to select legal and business advisers and communicate with them; it supplies Austrian legal data at http://www.jusline.co.at/jusline, and also operates the «jusline.de», «jusline.ch» and «jusline.li» websites. In Austria and certain other areas, it has... |