Supreme Court [Nejvyšší soud ČR], Civil, Liberec Pirate, 8 Tdo 137/2013, February 27, 2013

Document type
Court Decision
Country
The Court upheld the criminal liability of an operator of video indexing site, which included number of copyright infringing embed links. The Court found that the defendant himself put the links on his website and hence directly infringed the copyright by communicating the works to the public. see also eisionline blog; Martin Husovec, Czech Supreme Court: Embedding is Communication to the Public, Kluwer Copyright Blog 2012
Country
Year
2013
Topic, claim, or defense
Copyright
Document type
Court Decision
Issuing entity
Highest Domestic/National (including State) Court
Type of service provider
Host (Including Social Networks)
Type of law
Criminal
General effect on immunity
Weakens Immunity