Two New ECS Opinions: Digital Sound Sampling and the Taste of Cheese

The European Copyright Society (ECS) recently issued two Opinions on important copyright cases before the CJEU. Professor Bently led the drafting committee for the Opinion in relation to Case 476/17, Hutter v Pelham, which concerns questions referred by the German Federal Court of Justice in a case involving use of a sample from a sound recording by German electronic Kraftwerk. Professor Bently is a signatory to the Opinion in Case C-310/17, Levola Hengelo, in which the Court of Appeal of Arnhem seeks advice in a case in which protection is claimed for the taste of a cheese.