On 5 April 2019, the Government Legislation Centre published draft amendments of the Minister of Justice pertaining to the Polish Civil Procedure Code (hereinafter referred to as CPC). The amendments would enter into force on 1 January 2020. The deadline for submitting remarks to the draft amendments passes on 19 April 2019.

On 12 March 2019, information about the new composition of the 9th Term Copyright Commission was published in the Official Journal of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and on the websites of the Public Information Bulletin. We are pleased to announce that Attorney Janusz Piotr Kolczyński, the managing partner of the Law Firm, is among 20 arbiters appointed by Minister Professor Piotr Gliński.

The media has recently spread the news that Andrzej Sapkowski, author of the “Witcher” novel, has demanded that CD Projekt S.A. increase his remuneration for the transfer of the copyright to “Witcher”. The author has requested, via his lawyers [request for payment], to be paid additional PLN 60m, which would reflect the market success of the computer game of the same title published by CD Projekt.

On 19 July 2018, the new Act on Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights of 15 June 2018 entered into force. In Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Attorney Janusz Piotr Kolczyński commented on the new provisions.

We are presenting the conversation of Janusz Piotr Kolczyński, Att. with Wirtualnemedia.pl website about some provisions of the draft EU directive amending copyright.

You are heartily welcome to read the newest comments by Janusz Piotr Kolczyński, Att. for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (hereinafter: “DGP”) and Wirtualnemedia.pl website (hereinafter: ‘WM”), pertaining to the precedent-setting decision of the Court of Appeal in Warsaw of 29 August 2017, file ref. No. VI ACa 600/16 with respect to the dissemination, through Chomikuj.pl website, of files deriving from illegal sources in the context of the size of the damage caused by such activity.

Another commentary of Janusz Piotr Kolczyński, attorney-at-law, for Dziennik Gazety Prawnej. The commentary refers to the recently issued decision of the District Court in Lublin in case with ref. No. I C 758/16 pertaining to the issue of copyright trolling.

The C.R.O.P.A. Law Firm offered legal advice in relation to the publication of the book. Therefore, we also attended the première of the book.

Around two weeks ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter: CJEU) issued a decision in case C-610/15, where the parties were Stichting Brain – a Dutch foundation fighting fraud in the area of intellectual property and Ziggo BV – a supplier of Internet services.