No copyright violation by publication of book excerpts of a member of the German Parliament through an internet news portal

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Franz Gernhardt, LL.M.

Senior Counsel
Germany

As a Senior Counsel in our international IP Practice Group in Munich, I offer a broad expertise in trade mark, design, copyright and unfair competition law as well as in general litigation matters.

Franz Gernhardt reports on the highly anticipated decision of the German Federal Court of Justice regarding the degree to which a news portal can use excerpts from a book when relying on the exception for reporting on current affairs.

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