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Parody in Danish Copyright Law – The Little Mermaid Judgment

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  1. See, inter alia, Vereinigung Bildender Künstler v. Austria, 25.01.2007, 68354/01, para. 33; Welch et Silva Canha v. Portugal, 16812/11, 17.09.2013, para. 29; and Eon v. France, 26118/10, 14.03.2013, para. 60. Numerous further references can be found in the ECtHR’s “Guide on Article 10 of the Convention of Human Rights – Freedom of expression”, updated 31 August 2022 and available at https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/guide_art_10_eng.pdf, p. 40.

  2. Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, OJ L 167, 22.6.2001, pp. 10–19.

  3. Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC, OJ L 130, 17.5.2019, pp. 92–125.

  4. Section 52c(10) of the Danish Copyright Act, introduced by Act No. 1121 of 4 June 2021.

  5. See Appendix 3 to Bill L 19 (FT 2002-2003).

  6. See recital 19 of the InfoSoc Directive. According to the Copyright Act Sec. 3(2) “[t]he work must not be altered nor made available to the public in a manner or in a context which is prejudicial to the author’s literary or artistic reputation or individuality”.

  7. C-201/13, Johan Deckmyn and Vrijheidsfonds VZW v Helena Vandersteen and Others, ECLI:EU:C:2014:2132.

  8. C-469/17, Funke Medien NRW GmbH v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ECLI:EU:C:2019:623.

  9. C-516/17, Spiegel Online GmbH v. Volker Beck, ECLI:EU:C:2019:625.

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  1. Affiliate Professor, University of Copenhagen Center for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR), Copenhagen, Denmark

    Jørgen Blomqvist

  2. Professor, University of Copenhagen Center for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR), Copenhagen, Denmark

    Morten Rosenmeier & Jens Schovsbo

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This commentary is based on, Jørgen Blomqvist, Morten Rosenmeier and Jens Schovsbo, “‘Ej blot til lyst’ – parodiprincippet i dansk ophavsret”, Nordiskt Immateriellt Rättskydd (2023 – forthcoming), which contains extensive discussions and detailed references to Scandinavian judgments and literature. We focus on the copyright law aspects of the case, but it also involved the use of the Marketing Practices Act (which was denied).

For a translation into English of the Danish Supreme Court decision Little Mermaid, Case No. BS-24506/2022-HJR, see this issue of IIC at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-023-01407-7.

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Blomqvist, J., Rosenmeier, M. & Schovsbo, J. Parody in Danish Copyright Law – The Little Mermaid Judgment. IIC 54, 1632–1639 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-023-01406-8

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