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ChrisArchitecttoday at 8:36 PM2 repliesview on HN

EU posts about it:

Copyright in the European Union and geo-blocking: a work that is in the public domain can be published online free of charge in a Member State even if it remains protected in another Member State [pdf]

https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...

Other blog post:

CJEU clarifies when geo-blocking limits online copyright liability

https://intellectual-property-helpdesk.ec.europa.eu/news-eve...


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EmbarrassedHelptoday at 10:35 PM

> Now, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands must determine whether the geo-blocking used by the website was state of the art and effective in practice. If so, the intended audience would not have included Dutch users, and no communication would have been made to the public in the Netherlands.

This seems extremely problematic, depending on what "state of the art and effective" means. It seems like blocking VPN users is unfortunately still on the table, as are other invasive enforcement methods.

derditoday at 9:48 PM

And the actual judgment: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62...

I find these are often very readable and interesting.

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