Weekly TV guides and the Football DataCo decision of the CJEU Last week Dutch TV broadcasters won a case against a newspaper which published a weekly TV guide without their permission. The newspaper argued that the copyright claim of the broadcasters is contrary to the CJEU’s Football DataCo judgment. Annemarie Beunen • June 21, 2012
The Dutch ‘geschriftenbescherming’ after the ECJ’s Football DataCo decision In March the European Court of Justice passed judgment in a database case on football schedules. This judgment could well affect the Dutch protection for non-original writings ('geschriftenbescherming'), which is a peculiarity in Dutch copyright law. Annemarie Beunen • April 27, 2012