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Europeans access illegal content online 10 times a month on average.
On Tuesday 26 November 2024, representatives of the Lithuanian Broadcasting Commission visited the HCO premises where they met with representatives of the HCO. The meeting was on “National practices for the implementation of the European Commission Recommendation (EU) 2023/1018 on combating online piracy of sports and other live events”.
On 6.11.2024, in the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation signed between the HCO and the School of Law of the University of Athens, a visit of postgraduate students under the supervision of Mr. Konstantinos Christodoulou, Professor of Law of the University of Athens, took place at the offices of the HCO. The students will carry out an internship at the HCO, as an alternative to attending a course on copyright in accordance with the Guide to the Postgraduate Programme in Civil Law at the University of Athens.
On Thursday, November 21, 2024, the Hellenic Copyright Organization (HCO) participated in a training workshop for 5th grade teachers organized by the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) of A’ Athens (12th place).
The Dutch Supreme Court has referred the case concerning the copyright of the online publication of Anne Frank’s diary to the European Court of Justice. The Anne Frank Foundation is demanding that the publication of Anne Frank’s diary manuscripts on a website be stopped or that the website be blocked for the Dutch public, including via VPN or proxy.
The European Audiovisual Observatory publishes its first ever report on the European video games industry and its users in Europe, providing key insights into one of Europe’s most dynamic creative industries.
Intellectual property: Member States are required to protect works of art in the European Union, irrespective of the country of origin of those works or the nationality of their author.
On 22 and 23 October 2024, the EUIPO Intellectual Property (IP) in Education Network held its second meeting of the year, this time online. The Network is composed of representatives from EU Ministries of Education, IP offices and other relevant stakeholders.
The holder of the protection that Directive 2009/24 on the legal protection of computer programs provides cannot prohibit the marketing by a third party of software which merely changes variables transferred temporarily to a game console’s RAM.