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intentional tortfeasor | intentional wrongdoer

negligent misfeasance

misfeasance

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58 (1) Any assignment of a copyright, or any licence granting an interest in a copyright, may be executed, subscribed or acknowledged at any place in a treaty country, a Rome Convention country or a WPPT country by the assignor, licensor or secured or hypothecary debtor, before any notary public, commissioner or other official, or the judge of any court, who is authorized by law to administer oaths or certify documents in that place and who also subscribes their signature and affixes to, or impresses on, the assignment or licence their official seal or the seal of the court of which they are a judge.

The Court of Justice notes in particular that, in accordance with the principal objective of the directive (namely to establish a high level of protection of authors), the concept of ‘effective technological measures’ must be understood broadly including the application of an access code or protection process (encryption, scrambling or any other transformation of the work).

The dissemination of content which is protected by copyright and related rights, including books, audiovisual productions and recorded music, and services linked thereto, requires the licensing of rights by different holders of copyright and related rights, such as authors, performers, producers and publishers.