Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice Advance Access originally published online on December 19, 2006
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2007 2(1):15-16; doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpl195
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Principle of Community exhaustion upheld by Court of Justice
Queen Mary, University of London, London
Email: j.griffiths{at}qmul.ac.uk
Laserdisken ApS v Kulturministeriet, Case C-479/04, European Court of Justice, 12 September 2006
The European Court of Justice confirmed that Article 4(2) of the Information Directive did not permit member states to introduce or retain a rule of international exhaustion of the distribution right and rejected a challenge to the validity of that provision.