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  In December 12, 2018, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar delivered his opinion before the Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) on the questions referred by the German constitutional Court, for preliminary hearing. The CJEU has been asked whether incorporation in a musical work, as a continuous loop, of 2 seconds of a rhythmic sequence from another musical work, would infringe the neighbouring rights of the producer of the first phonogram[1]. The Advocate General states in his Opinion that the producer of the phonogram would have an absolute right to authorize or prohibit the...