Germany has implemented the Illustration for teaching or scientific research (Art. 5.3(a) InfoSoc) exception in § 60a Unterricht und Lehre, § 60b Unterrichts- und Lehrmedien, § 60c Wissenschaftliche Forschung, §60d Text und Data Mining. The national exception is slightly more restrictive than the EU exception.

Implementation summary:

Articles 60a - 60d of the German copyright act contain exceptions that are derived from article 5(3)a of the InfoSoc directive. These deal with Education and Teaching (§60a), educational materials(§60b), scientific research (§60c) and text and data mining (§60d).

Implementation details:

Beneficiaries:

  • Educational institutions (§60a)
  • Producers of educational media (§60b)
  • Anyone engaging in academic research (§60c, §60d)

Purposes:

  • Education and teaching (§60a)
  • noncommercial academic research (§60c)
  • Automatic analysis in the context of noncommercial academic research (§60d)

Usage:

  • Reproduction (§60a, §60b, §60c, §60d)
  • Public Communication (§60a, §60b, §60c, §60d)
  • Distribution (§60a, §60b, §60c)
  • Making available to the public (§60a)

Subject Matter:

  • Works

Compensation:

  • Some uses

Other Conditions:

  • Quantity limitations

Introduced/last updated: 01 March 2018

Remarks: This this a very complicated mess. Each of these four exceptions deserves its own analysis, there is lots of work to be done here