Hi,

My reading is similar. The CJEU essentially says that by including
technical standards into EU legislation, the EU's transparency rules apply
to them. That's a good decision, but not something that changes the
copyright status of said standards.

Cheers,
Dimi

Le mer. 6 mars 2024 à 14:42, Phil Bradley-Schmieg <[email protected]>
a écrit :

>  +1 to Mathias's point here.  EU access-to-document type cases don't
> necessarily impact the ownership of IP / question of whether something is
> PD.
>
> While I've not fully analysed the copyright question for this particular
> scenario - or even had time to fully digest the new CJEU ruling (and what
> follows cannot be considered WMF's position on anything), I see that the
> deletion discussion was already closed as a Speedy Keep.  So since things
> are moving pretty quickly, I'll just note for now that *the European
> Commission seems to take the position that the mere inclusion of
> international standards (drafted by third parties, not by or for the
> European Commission) into EU law does not result in that standard being
> released to the PD*. This is discussed here [1].
>
> I have found an example: inclusion of IFRS accounting standards into EU
> law; see Recital 14 here [2] ("*The copyright, the database rights, and
> any other intellectual property rights in the IFRS and related
> interpretations issued by the International Financial Reporting
> Interpretations Committee are owned by the IFRS Foundation. A copyright
> notice should therefore be included in the Annex to this Regulation.*").
> The copyright notice that it refers to appears in the Annex to that law[3],
> and is worded: "*Reproduction allowed within the European Economic Area.
> All existing rights reserved outside the EEA, with the exception of the
> right to reproduce for the purposes of personal use or other fair dealing.
> Further information can be obtained from the IASB at www.iasb.org
> <http://www.iasb.org>*"
>
> [1]
> https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/legal-notice/legal-notice.html#2.%20droits
> [2]
> https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2023.237.01.0001.01.ENG
> [3]
> https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2023.237.01.0001.01.ENG#d1e91-4-1
>
> Regards,
> Phil
>
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 11:51, Mathias Schindler <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for sharing the link. Contrary to the subject line, I get the
>> impression that the court did not answer the question on the public domain
>> (as in copyright) status of those harmonized standards that are referenced
>> by EU law. It only answered a specific question on the EU access to
>> documents law and left the second question unanswered. If someone had more
>> time looking at the decision, I would be happy to see a clarification if I
>> am mistaken.
>>
>> Mathias
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 2:25 PM Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The CJEU today ruled for Carl Malamud against the European Commission in
>>> C‑588/21 (Public.Resource.Org  and Right to Know v. European
>>> Commission):
>>>
>>>
>>> https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=283443&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=6375509
>>>
>>> https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_4324488/en/
>>>
>>> I've therefore opened a discussion on Commons:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Copyright#Public_domain_status_of_European_harmonised_standards
>>>
>>>
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:EN_301_549_V3.2.1_(2021-03).pdf
>>>
>>> Some relevant snippets from the ruling:
>>>
>>> «a harmonised standard, adopted on the basis of a directive [...] forms
>>> part of EU law»
>>>
>>> «the rule of law, which requires free access to EU law for all natural
>>> or legal persons of the European Union»
>>>
>>> «there is an overriding public interest [...] justifying the disclosure
>>> of the requested harmonised standards»
>>>
>>> «As is apparent [...] the Commission should have acknowledged [...] the
>>> existence of an overriding public interest»
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>         Federico
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