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Subject-matter

Reference for a preliminary ruling – Högsta domstolen – Interpretation of Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC (OJ 2006 L 105, p. 54), and of Article 8 of Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (OJ 2004 L 157, p. 45) – Intellectual property – Exclusive right, held by publishing companies, to make audio books available to the public – Alleged infringement of that right in that those audio books were made accessible via an FTP server (File transfer protocol server), an internet file sharing program – Order that the internet service provider which provided the internet connection by allocating an IP address send the owner of the copyright details of the names and addresses of the persons registered as users of that internet IP address during a given period

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• Directive 95/46 : paragraph 4
• Directive 95/46 -A02LA : paragraph 5
• Directive 95/46 -A02LB : paragraphs 5, 52
• Directive 95/46 -A13P1 : paragraph 6
• Directive 2002/58 : paragraphs 43, 49, 52, 56, 61
• Directive 2002/58 -A02 : paragraph 7
• Directive 2002/58 -A02L1 : paragraph 52
• Directive 2002/58 -A05P1 : paragraph 8
• Directive 2002/58 -A06 : paragraph 9
• Directive 2002/58 -A15P1 : paragraphs 10, 37, 41 - 43, 55
• Directive 2004/48 : paragraphs 49, 54, 56, 61
• Directive 2004/48 -A08 : paragraphs 1, 3, 35, 36, 61
• Directive 2004/48 -A08P3 : paragraph 55
• Directive 2006/24 : paragraphs 35 - 46, 61
• Directive 2006/24 -A01P1 : paragraphs 12, 38, 41, 42
• Directive 2006/24 -A03 : paragraphs 1, 35
• Directive 2006/24 -A03P1 : paragraph 13
• Directive 2006/24 -A04 : paragraphs 1, 14, 35, 39
• Directive 2006/24 -A05 : paragraphs 1, 35, 15
• Directive 2006/24 -A06 : paragraph 16
• Directive 2006/24 -A11 : paragraphs 1, 17, 35, 41, 43
• Directive 2006/24 -C12 : paragraphs 11, 42, 43
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -107/98 : paragraph 47
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -275/06 : paragraphs 49, 52, 54 - 56
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -2/07 : paragraph 47
• Court of Justice - Order C -557/07 : paragraphs 55, 56

Operative part

• Interprets : Directive 2002/58
• Interprets : Directive 2004/48
• Interprets : Directive 2004/48 -A08
• Interprets : Directive 2006/24

Opinion

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 7 : point 3
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 8 : point 3
  
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2007), Article 17 : point 3
  
• Directive 95/46 -A06P1LB : points 51, 52
  
• Directive 95/46 -A13P1 : point 58
  
• Directive 2002/58 : points 3, 10, 53, 55, 58, 63
  
• Directive 2002/58 -A05 : point 61
  
• Directive 2002/58 -A05P1 : point 11
  
• Directive 2002/58 -A06P1 : points 11, 61
  
• Directive 2002/58 -A08P1 : point 61
  
• Directive 2002/58 -A08P2 : point 61
  
• Directive 2002/58 -A08P3 : point 61
  
• Directive 2002/58 -A08P4 : point 61
  
• Directive 2002/58 -A09 : point 61
  
• Directive 2002/58 -A15 : points 57 - 62
  
• Directive 2002/58 -A15P1 : points 11, 12, 58
  
• Directive 2004/48 -A08 : points 1, 7, 39
  
• Directive 2004/48 -A08P1 : point 54
  
• Directive 2004/48 -A08P2 : point 54
  
• Directive 2004/48 -A08P3LE : point 54
  
• Directive 2006/24 : points 3, 5, 39 - 49, 53, 63
  
• Directive 2006/24 -07 : point 15
  
• Directive 2006/24 -A01P1 : points 14, 45, 63
  
• Directive 2006/24 -A03 : points 1, 15
  
• Directive 2006/24 -A03P1 : point 16
  
• Directive 2006/24 -A04 : points 1, 17, 45
  
• Directive 2006/24 -A05 : points 1, 15, 18
  
• Directive 2006/24 -A06 : point 15
  
• Directive 2006/24 -A07 : point 15
  
• Directive 2006/24 -A08 : point 15
  
• Directive 2006/24 -A11 : points 1, 19
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -465/00 : point 4
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -101/01 : point 4
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -275/06 : points 44, 55
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -275/06 : points 3, 5, 44, 58, 59
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -301/06 : point 5
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -73/07 : point 4
  
• Court of Justice - Order C -557/07 : points 3, 5, 58
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -92/09 : point 4
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -185/09 : point 5
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -189/09 : point 5
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -202/09 : point 5
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -211/09 : point 5
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -70/10 : point 3
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 20/09/2010

Date of the Opinion

• 17/11/2011

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

19/04/2012

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 317 from 20.11.2010, p.24

Judgment: OJ C 165 from 09.06.2012, p.4

Name of the parties

Bonnier Audio and Others

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Möller, Doris: Urheber-/Datenschutzrecht: Herausgabe gespeicherter Verkehrsdaten zur zivilrechtlichen Verfolgung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 2012 p.519-520 (DE)
2. Idot, Laurence: Droit d'auteur, atteinte à un droit exclusif et protection des données, Europe 2012 Juin Comm. nº 6 p.255 (FR)
3. Daum, Felix: Auskunftsbegehren über Inhaber von IP-Adressen - Nutzung von Daten aus der Vorratsdatenspeicherung, MR-Int : Internationale Rundschau zum Medienrecht, IP- & IT-Recht 2012 p.33-34 (DE)
4. Zemann, Adolf: EuGH zu IP-Adressen-Beauskunftung, Ecolex 2012 p.803 (DE)
5. Vagena, E.: DEE ypoth. C-461/2010, apof. tis 19.4.2012 (Prosvoli apokleistikou dikaiomatos meso diadiktyou. Apokalypsi taftotitas prosopou), Dikaio Meson Enimerosis & Epikoinonias 2012 p.425-428 (EL)
6. Leardi, Pierodavide: Diritto di informazione e tutela dei dati personali in una recente pronuncia della Corte di Giustizia, Il diritto industriale 2012 p.542-550 (IT)
7. Hamřik, Martin: Rozsudok "Bonnier Audio", Výber z rozhodnutí Súdneho dvora Európskych spoločenstiev 2012 p.58-61 (SK)
8. Hečko, Zuzana: Data retention by internet service providers for IP rights protection: Bonnier Audio (C-461/10), Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice 2012 p.449-456 (EN)
9. Tinç, Mehmet: L'Europe des libertés: revue d'actualité juridique 2012 nº 38 p.61 (FR)
10. Nordell, Per Jonas: Ur svensk rättspraxis, Nordiskt Immateriellt Rättsskydd 2013 n° 3 p.326-342 (SV)
11. Rosén, Jan: IPRED, proportionalitet, beviskrav och begreppet överföring till allmänheten - mycket ryms i Högsta domstolens beslut den 21/12 2012 (NJA 2012 s. 975) Bonnier Audio m.fl., Nordiskt Immateriellt Rättsskydd 2013 n° 3 p.343-349 (SV)
12. Hedenquist, Gunilla ; Beijer, Maria: On the responsibility of internet service providers in the event of alleged copyright infringement and the relationship between the Enforcement Directive (2004/48/EC), the Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC) and the E-privacy directive (2002/58/EC), LANDMARK IP DECISIONS OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE 2008-2013 (Ed. Larcier - Brussels) 2014 p.201-205 (EN)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Högsta domstolen - Sweden

Subject-matter

• Approximation of laws
  
• Telecommunications
  
• Intellectual, industrial and commercial property
  
• - Copyright and related rights
  

Provisions of national law referred to

Lag (1960:729) om upphovsrätt till litterära och konstnärliga verk, 53 c §

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  

Formation of the Court

troisième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Malenovský

Advocate General

Jääskinen

Language(s) of the Case

• Swedish
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• French