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Request for a preliminary ruling from the Handelsgericht Wien (Austria) lodged on 5 August 2013 – Pez Hejduk v EnergieAgentur.NRW GmbH

(Case C-441/13)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Handelsgericht Wien

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Pez Hejduk

Defendant: EnergieAgentur.NRW GmbH

Question referred

Is Article 5(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters 1 to be interpreted as meaning that, in a dispute concerning an infringement of rights related to copyright which is alleged to have been committed in that a photograph was kept accessible on a website, the website being operated under the top-level domain of a Member State other than that in which the proprietor of the right is domiciled, there is jurisdiction only

–    in the Member State in which the alleged infringer is established; and

–    in the Member State(s) to which the website, according to its content, is directed?

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1 OJ 2001 L 12, p. 1.