Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 12 September 2019

VG Media Gesellschaft zur Verwertung der Urheber- und Leistungsschutzrechte von Medienunternehmen mbH v Google LLC

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Berlin

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Industrial policy — Approximation of laws — Directive 98/34/EC — Procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society services — Article 1(11) — Concept of ‘technical regulation’

Case C-299/17


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Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex
Judgment (OJ)
25/10/2019 VG Media
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2019:716
12/09/2019 VG Media
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2018:1004
13/12/2018 VG Media
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Application (OJ)
01/09/2017 VG Media
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Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.16 Technical standards and regulations
      4.11.16.01 Standardisation
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.11 Approximation of laws
    4.11.11 Information and communication technologies
      4.11.11.02 Information society


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 23/05/2017

Date of the Opinion

  • 13/12/2018

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

12/09/2019


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 383 from 11.11.2019, p.7

Application: OJ C 309 from 18.09.2017, p.21

Name of the parties

VG Media

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Brants, Wynand: AMI: Tijdschrift voor auteurs-, media & informatierecht 2019 p.220 (NL)
  2. Stieper, Malte: Der Leistungsschutz für Presseverleger zwischen Anwendungsverbot und Richtlinienumsetzung: zugleich Anmerkung zu EuGH "VG Media/Google", Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht INT 2019 p.1264-1269 (DE)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Landgericht Berlin - Germany

Subject-matter

  • Approximation of laws

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

quatrième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Šváby

Advocate General

Hogan

Language(s) of the Case

  • German

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • English