CJEU rules that ‘private copying’ exception in the Copyright Directive applies to the storage in the cloud of a copy of a protected work for private purposes

Rightholders must receive fair compensation but not necessarily from cloud providers if it can be provided through other means….

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CJEU: Blanket retention of traffic and location data for investigation of crime unlawful

CJEU confirms that EU law precludes the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data relating to electronic communications for the purposes of combating serious crime and the national court may not impose a time limit on the effects of a declaration of invalidity of a national law…

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