Directive 93/98 / EEC on the harmonization of the term of protection of copyright
 Directive 93/98 / EEC |
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| Title: | Council Directive 93/98 / EEC of 29 October 1993 on the harmonization of the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights |
| Designation: (not official) |
Term of Protection Directive |
| Date of issue: | October 29, 1993 |
| Release date: | November 24, 1993 |
| Come into effect: | November 19, 1993 |
| Replaced by: | Directive 2006/116 / EC |
| Expiry: | January 15, 2007 |
| Full text |
Consolidated version (not official) basic version |
| Regulation has expired. | |
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The term of protection directive was originally referred to as the Council Directive 93/98 / EEC of October 29, 1993 on the harmonization of the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights , which among other things led to the Europe-wide harmonization of the standard protection period , which has been in effect in the EU 70 years after Death of the author and also applies in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein . The Term of Protection Directive of October 29, 1993 was changed on January 15, 2007 by the currently applicable Directive 2006/116 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of December 12, 2006 on the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights , last amended by Directive 2011 / 77 / EU dated September 27, 2011.
In Germany, the Term of Protection Directive was implemented on July 1, 1995 in the Law on Copyright and Related Rights .
This resulted in considerable effects in the area of image rights :
- The requirements for photographs in order to be allowed to be regarded as particularly sensitive " photographic works " have been tightened.
- If a photographic work was still protected in another EU state on July 1, 1995, protection according to § 137 et seq. UrhG, which, due to the long deadlines in Spain, meant that a huge number of pictures taken before 1960 that had already been in the public domain were suddenly protected again.
- Article 6 of this EC Directive has expressly left the definition of the duration of protection for "other photographs" (photographs) to the national laws of the member states.
