Reports of Cases

1999 I-03939

Subject-matter

Preliminary ruling ─ Tribunale Ordinario, Milan ─ Interpretation of Article 10 of Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993 harmonising the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights ─ Provisions needed to protect acquired rights of third parties ─ National Law limiting the lifetime of those rights to three months after its entry into force

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• Directive 93/98 : paragraph 11
• Directive 93/98 -A03 : paragraph 3
• Directive 93/98 -A10 : paragraph 1
• Directive 93/98 -A10P2 : paragraphs 3, 11, 18 - 20
• Directive 93/98 -A10P3 : paragraphs 4, 10, 15, 21 - 30
• Directive 93/98 -C2 : paragraph 20
• Directive 93/98 -C26 : paragraph 22
• Directive 93/98 -C27 : paragraph 22
• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 234 : paragraph 13
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -68/69 -N06 : paragraph 24
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -270/84 -N31 : paragraph 24
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -278/84 -N36 : paragraph 25
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -203/86 -N19 : paragraph 25
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -221/88 -N35 : paragraph 25

Operative part

• Interprets : Directive 93/98 -A10P3

Opinion

• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 234 : points 14 - 17
  
• Directive 91/250 : point 21
  
• Directive 92/100 : point 21
  
• Directive 93/83 : point 21
  
• Directive 93/98 : points 20, 21, 36, 37
  
• Directive 93/98 -A03 : point 7
  
• Directive 93/98 -A10 : points 1, 6, 8, 26
  
• Directive 93/98 -A10P2 : point 27
  
• Directive 93/98 -A10P3 : points 20, 26, 28 - 38
  
• Directive 93/98 -A13P1 : point 9
  
• Directive 93/98 -C10 : point 21
  
• Directive 93/98 -C26 : point 8
  
• Directive 93/98 -C27 : point 8
  
• Directive 96/9 : point 21
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -68/69 : point 36
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -78/70 : point 21
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -244/80 -N21 : point 16
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -52/81 -N27 : point 36
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -159/82 : point 36
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -270/84 : point 36
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -278/84 : point 36
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -424/85 -N33 : point 36
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -341/87 -N11 : point 21
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -221/88 -N35 : point 36
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -350/88 -N23 : point 36
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -320/90 : point 16
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -343/90 : point 16
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -92/92 : point 28
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -387/93 -N15 : point 16
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -415/93 -N59 : point 16
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -472/93 : point 17
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -105/94 -N21 : point 16
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -105/94 -N22 : point 16
  
• Court of Justice - Opinion C -105/94 -N19 : point 16
  
• Court of Justice - Order C -2/96 : point 17
  
• Court of Justice - Order C -191/96 : point 17
  
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -321/97 -N57 : point 25
  

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 02/03/1998

Date of the Opinion

• 23/03/1999

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

29/06/1999

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 137 from 02.05.1998, p.11

Judgment: OJ C 246 from 28.08.1999, p.5

Name of the parties

Butterfly Music

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Cohen Jehoram, H.: Butterfly, Ars aequi 1999 p.933-937 (NL)
2. Baudenbacher, Carl: Nochmals: Vom Inseldasein des helvetischen Urheberrechts, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 1999 p.254-257 (DE)
3. Tichy, Simone: Massnahmen zum Schutz erworbener Rechte Dritter bei Wiederaufleben des Urheberrechtsschutzes, European Law Reporter 1999 p.418 (DE)
4. Fiumara, Oscar: Diritti d'autore e diritti connessi: armonizzazione della durata di protezione e salvezza dei diritti acquisiti da terzi, Rassegna dell'avvocatura dello Stato 1999 I Sez. II p.351-353 (IT)
5. Mok, M.R.: Ondernemingsrecht 2000 p.18-19 (NL)
6. Edelman, Bernard: Une première décision de la CJCE sur l'interprétation de la directive relative à l'harmonisation de la durée de protection des droits d'auteur et droits voisins, Recueil Le Dalloz 2000 Jur. p.279-282 (FR)
7. Ubertazzi, Luigi Carlo: The "Butterfly" Case or EC Term of Protection Directive and Transitional Law, International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law 2000 p.142-151 (EN)
8. Lindner, Brigitte: Revival of Rights v. Protection of Adquired Rights : The Interpretation of Article 10 (3) of the Duration Directive by the European Court of Justice in the Butterfly Case, European Intellectual Property Review 2000 p.133-136 (EN)
9. Françon, André: Propriété littéraire et artistique, Revue trimestrielle de droit commercial et de droit économique 2000 p.91-94 (FR)
10. Cohen Jehoram, H.: Informatierecht 2000 p.134 (NL)
11. Jehoram, Cohen: Jurisprudentie Intellectuele Eigendom 1953-2014 (Ed. 2015 Ars Aequi Libri, Nijmegen) 2015 p.90-94 (NL)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Tribunale di Milano - Italy

Subject-matter

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

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

• Reference for a preliminary ruling
  

Formation of the Court

Cour plénière (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Puissochet

Advocate General

Cosmas

Language(s) of the Case

• Italian
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

• Greek