Copyright

The Supreme Court decided to refer to the Court of Justice of the European Union the question whether the requirements of Art 5(1) of Counsel Directive (EC) 2001/29 (on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society), that acts of reproduction should be: (i) temporary; (ii) transient or incidental; and (iii) an integral and essential part of the technological process, had been satisfied by the technical features in issue, having regard in particular to the fact that a copy of protected material might, in the ordinary course of internet usage, remain in the cache for a period of time after the browsing session which had generated that copy had been completed until it was overlaid by other material, and a screen copy would remain on screen until the browsing session had been terminated by the user.