SPAIN ECJ COPYRIGHT LAW INFRINGEMENT DIGITAL COPYRIGHT
May 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPANISH government has been given two months by the European Commission to say how it will implement a key European Union (EU) copyright law, or face legal action maybe resulting in massive daily recurring fines. Madrid has failed to comply with a European Court of Justice (ECJ) order to write into its national statute book the 2001 copyright directive, which updates EU legislation considering digital technology. It also regulates intra-EU cross-border and e-commerce sales of copyright-protected goods. With Spain not implementing the ...
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