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title: "The CJEU on the exhaustion of digital goods: copyright exhaustion does not apply to e-books – C-263/18, 19 December 2019"
description: Copyright exhaustion does not apply to e-books, whose resale is to be considered as a communication to the public – pursuant to art. 3 of Directive EC 2001/29 - not as a means of distribution of the work – under art. 4 of the same directive.
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# [The CJEU on the exhaustion of digital goods: copyright exhaustion does not apply to e-books – C-263/18, 19 December 2019](https://www.jacobacci-law.com/news-and-publications/the-cjeu-on-the-exhaustion-of-digital-goods-copyright-exhaustion-does-not-apply-to-e-books-c-263-18-19-december-2019)

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Copyright exhaustion does not apply to e-books, whose resale is to be considered as a communication to the public – pursuant to art. 3 of Directive EC 2001/29 - not as a means of distribution of the work – under art. 4 of the same directive.

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