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| | | Supreme Court - Order | ||
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| | | 2019-09-11 | ||
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| [[HR-2019-1725-A]] (translated into English by the Supreme Court) | |||
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| Intellectual property, Copyright, Database protection, Preliminary injunction, Primary claim, Secure claim, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Legal costs | |||
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! style="width: 120px; text-align: left; top; color: #666; background-color: #f8f8f8;" | Summary: | |||
|The case concerned a second-tier appeal against an interim measure prohibiting, among other things, the publication of Supreme Court rulings extracted from Lovdata’s databases. The issue at stake was whether the freedom of expression entails restrictions on the protection of databases under the Copyright Act. | |||
A number of judgments and other decisions of the Supreme Court had been retrieved from Lovdata's databases and published on the website Rettspraksis.no, which presents itself as a free resource for searching and finding information in court decisions. | |||
The Supreme Court concluded that extraction and making available on the internet the material in question was | The Supreme Court concluded that extraction and making available on the internet the material in question was contrary to Lovdata's exclusive right under Section 24 of the Copyright Act as far as decisions were retrieved from a DVD published by Lovdata in 2005 and Lovdata's online databases. It was agreed that material retrieved from a CD released by Lovdata in 2002 could be used freely, because the protection period of 15 years had expired. | ||
The | The order provides guidance for the balance between the database rights under the Copyright Act and freedom of expression. The order further provides guidance on the interpretation of Section 14 of the Copyright Act, that applies to public documents as part of the exercise of public authority, which are not protected by the Copyright Act. | ||
Read more about the Rettspraksis-case here: | Read more about the Rettspraksis-case here: | ||
* [[Rettspraksis-saken|The Rettspraksis-case]] | * [[Rettspraksis-saken|The Rettspraksis-case]] | ||
* [[Medieomtale_og_sosiale_medier|Media coverage]] | * [[Medieomtale_og_sosiale_medier|Media coverage]] | ||
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| | | Oslo County Court [[TOBYF-2018-83936]], [[TOBYF-2018-88856]] - Borgarting Court of Appeal [[LB-2018-162009]] - Supreme Court HR-2019-1725-A (case no. 19-22475SIV-HRET), civil case, appeal against Borgarting Court of Appeal’s order | ||
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| Fredrik Ljone og Håkon Wium Lie (counsel Halvor Manshaus) against The Lovdata Foundation (counsel Jon Wessel-Aas) | |||
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! style="width: 120px; text-align: left; color: #666; background-color: #f8f8f8;" | Judges: | |||
| [[Erik Thyness]], [[Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen]], [[Henrik Bull]], [[Arne Ringnes]], [[Hilde Indreberg]] | |||
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! style="width: 120px; text-align: left; color: #666; background-color: #f8f8f8;" | Law sources: | |||
| [https://lovdata.no/lov/2018-06-15-40/§14 Copyright Act (2018) Section 14], [https://lovdata.no/lov/2018-06-15-40/§24 Section 24], [https://lovdata.no/NLE/lov/1814-05-17/a100 The Constitution (1814) Article 100], [https://lovdata.no/lov/1999-05-21-30/emke/a10 European Convention on Human Rights Article 10], [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:31996L0009 EUs directive on the legal protection of databases 1996/9/EF], [https://lovdata.no/NLE/lov/2005-06-17-90/§section15-8 Dispute Act (2005) Section 15-8], [https://lovdata.no/NLE/lov/2005-06-17-90/§section20-2 Section 20-2], [https://lovdata.no/NLE/lov/2005-06-17-90/§section30-6 Section 30-6], [https://lovdata.no/NLE/lov/2005-06-17-90/§section34-1 Section 34-1] | |||
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(1) Justice <b>Thyness</b>: The case concerns a second-tier appeal against an interim measure prohibiting, among other things, the publication of Supreme Court rulings extracted from Lovdata’s databases. The issue at stake is whether the freedom of expression entails restrictions on the protection of databases under the Copyright Act. | (1) Justice <b>Thyness</b>: The case concerns a second-tier appeal against an interim measure prohibiting, among other things, the publication of Supreme Court rulings extracted from Lovdata’s databases. The issue at stake is whether the freedom of expression entails restrictions on the protection of databases under the Copyright Act. | ||
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(80) Following the voting the Supreme Court gave this | (80) Following the voting the Supreme Court gave this | ||
<b>ORDER:</b> | <center><b>ORDER:</b></center> | ||
1. The appeal is dismissed. | 1. The appeal is dismissed. | ||