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Today we’d like to share with you an article that has been prepared by the lawyers of our Dutch member BUMA on a very important case pending at the EU Court, formally known as the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The article analyses the questions that were posed to the Court in the preliminary ruling of case of Svensson/Retriever Sverige AB, which is specifically concerned withhow hyperlinking can play an important role in the unlicensed use of musical works. The analysis is supported by GESAC’s members.

GESAC follows all discussions related to the cloud with great attention and earlier this month took part in the Forum Europe Cloud Computing conference. The conference gathered European and international experts on cloud computing services as well as high level politicians from Europe and around the world.

One of the sessions was dedicated to copyright and its relation with cloud services. GESAC pointed out that for artists the cloud holds much promise. They have ever more access to markets that are geographically broader and more diverse than ever seemed possible: not only is this good for their careers, is it also good for their livelihoods as it offers greater opportunity for them to generate revenue for the use of their works.

Presented by CISAC, The World Creators Summit (formerly known as World Copyright Summit), will take place in Washington DC at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center on June 4 and 5, 2013 (with an opening cocktail party on June 3 evening). Now in its fourth edition, this biennial event aims at establishing a constructive dialogue, exchange ideas, debate diverse viewpoints and discuss the remedies linked to intellectual property and creative content online with all the stakeholders in the new digital economy, from creators, rights organizations and guilds, to content service providers, broadcasters, telecommunications operators, hardware manufacturers, legal experts and policy-makers.

Marielle Gallo MEP, the rapporteur on the CRM Directive, has now published her working document on the site of the European Parliament. You can read it (in French only, for now) here.

Gesac, the makers of this web platform, will soon comment on the paper here – so stay tuned.

In the mean time, here’s a re-cap of Gesac’s position on the Collective Rights Management Proposal.

You can read Gesac’s full opinion here.