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UK: Lucasfilm Ltd & Ors v Ainsworth & Anor (Supreme Court), 27 july 2011
UK: Lucasfilm Ltd & Ors v Ainsworth & Anor, Supreme Court, 27 july 2011. Helmets and harmours created for the characters of the Imperial Stormtrooper in the film Star Wars are not...
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UK: Future v. Edge (High Court Chancery Division), 13 june 2011
UK: Future Publishing Ltd v. Edge Interactive Media Inc., High Court Chancery Division, 13 June 2011. Copyright in logo: US companies involved in the business of computer games had infringed copyright...
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UK: ITV Broadcasting Ltd v TV Catchup Ltd (live-streaming)
UK: ITV Broadcasting Ltd v TV Catchup Ltd High Court of England and Wales (Patents Court), 18 July 2011 Live-streaming: In a case on internet live-streaming retransmission of TV broadcasts and films,...
View Article“In order to fight copyright infringements, ISPs may be asked to render...
Research Center on IT and Law This sentence summarizes quite well the decision of the Antwerp Court of Appeal of 26 September 2011 which it is abstracted from. The Belgian Anti-piracy Federation filed...
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No more dance for Baila!
The Tribunal of Rome has rejected the appeal brought by Reti Televisive Italiane (RTI, Mediaset Group) and Endemol, respectively the broadcaster and the producer of the Mediaset TV program “Baila!”,...
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Blocking The Pirate Bay: will the Dutch court ruling hold in appeal?
Institute for Information Law (IViR) By Axel Arnbak, IViR. Last week, a Dutch district court ruled that two internet access providers, Ziggo & XS4ALL, have to block customers’ access to the...
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Hosting providers: passive vs. active
We are experiencing a new trend by Italian first instance courts in addressing the issue of liability of hosting providers for contents posted by users in copyright infringement cases. The new approach...
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Intermediary classic decided in favor of intermediary
Institute for Information Law (IViR) The Dutch Court of Appeal in Leeuwarden has ruled in favor of an online market platform with regard to its liability for intellectual property infringements and the...
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What’s the size of small parts? (Germany)
By Benjamin Schütze, Institute of Legal Informatics, Leibniz Universität Hannover “Since its introduction in 2003, the provision marks the centre of a controversy between schools and institutions of...
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The GEMA-Presumption and the burden of non liquet (Germany)
Institute of Legal Informatics, Leibniz Universität Hannover “The judgment casts a spotlight on a distinct feature of collective rights management in Germany and the difficulties that may ensue for...
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Historic conviction of the administrators of a downloads site: Youkioske...
Patricia MariscalElzaburuOn 5 March 2015, the Spanish National High Court convicted the administrators of the website Youkioske of an aggravated intellectual property offence and of promoting and...
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Draft law provision on the administrative removal and blocking of online...
Tatiana SinodinouUniversity of CyprusThe draft law for the implementation in Greece of Directive 2014/26/EU on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of...
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Sweden: Swedese Möbler Aktiebolag v. Dan Burhén Möbler Aktiebolag, Supreme...
Johan NorderydLindahlThe Swedish Supreme Court considered under what circumstances, and to what extent, a penalty payment can be imposed on a company that has been prohibited under penalty of a fine...
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UK: Ultrasoft Technologies Ltd v. Hubcreate Ltd, High Court of England and...
Stavroula KarapapaUniversity of ReadingThe court held that the defendant did not infringe the claimant’s copyright or database rights beyond the infringements already admitted, as none of the...
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France: Miror/Nancy, Court of Cassation of France, First Civil Law Chamber,...
Brad SpitzYS AvocatsThe French Supreme Court confirmed that a writ of summons for infringement of intellectual property rights must determine and specify the elements for which protection is sought, as...
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France: Bouygues Télécom, Conseil d’Etat, 383110, 31 December 2015
Brad SpitzYS AvocatsThe Conseil d’Etat, the French administrative Supreme Court, ordered the French Prime Minister to take regulatory measures to indemnify the ISPs (Internet service providers) for the...
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American and European safe harbours
Leon TrapmanInstitute for Information Law (IViR)The American Vimeo case, decided on June 16, 2016, broadens the exemption for internet service providers (ISPs) in cases of copyright infringement by...
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UK: Lucasfilm Ltd & Ors v Ainsworth & Anor (Supreme Court), 27 july 2011
Maurizio BorghiUK: Lucasfilm Ltd & Ors v Ainsworth & Anor, Supreme Court, 27 july 2011. Helmets and harmours created for the characters of the Imperial Stormtrooper in the film Star Wars are...
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UK: Future v. Edge (High Court Chancery Division), 13 june 2011
Maurizio BorghiUK: Future Publishing Ltd v. Edge Interactive Media Inc., High Court Chancery Division, 13 June 2011. Copyright in logo: US companies involved in the business of computer games had...
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UK: ITV Broadcasting Ltd v TV Catchup Ltd (live-streaming)
Maurizio BorghiUK: ITV Broadcasting Ltd v TV Catchup Ltd High Court of England and Wales (Patents Court), 18 July 2011 Live-streaming: In a case on internet live-streaming retransmission of TV...
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