Football Association Premier League Ltd and others v QC Leisure and others; Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted October 10th, 2011 in competition, EC law, law reports, licensed premises, licensing, media, sport by sally

Football Association Premier League Ltd and others v QC Leisure and others; Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd (Joined Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08); [2011] WLR (D) 286

“The clauses of an exclusive licence agreement concluded between a holder of intellectual property rights and a broadcaster constituted a restriction on competition prohibited by article 101FEU of the FEU Treaty where they obliged the broadcaster not to supply decoding devices enabling access to that right holder’s protected subject matter with a view to their use outside the territory covered by that licence agreement.”

WLR Daily, 4th October 2011

Source: www.iclr.co.uk