“Collecting societies will be able to collect royalties on behalf of all rights holders and not just members under a Government plan that would require individual content creators to opt out of their systems.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Publishers should develop new licensing models that would allow researchers to use computerised techniques to read information contained in journal articles at ‘realistic rates’, MPs have said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th June 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The principles established in Prince Jefri Bolkiah v KPMG (A firm) [1999] 2 AC 222 were not applicable to a case in which the former employer of a patent attorney now employed within a competitor organisation sought injunctive relief to restrain the current employer from acting by, or otherwise seeking assistance or advice from, the patent attorney in relation to current litigation.”
WLR Daily, 31st May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A new code of practice setting out new anti-piracy measures and procedures is expected to be published next month, the Government has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Individuals who access information about football goals that is stored in a database do not infringe on the database rights of football authorities, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Head of global media observation group says many countries are trying to restrict internet freedom in name of security.”
The Guardian, 1st May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK’s intellectual property (IP) framework is one of the worst in the world in terms of serving the interests of the public, a new report has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The way that Government determines policies on intellectual property (IP) issues is to be reviewed by a cross-party group of MPs.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Newcastle United Football Club has settled a disputed tax bill with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) that is thought to relate largely to image rights payments to players, according to a newspaper report.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A student who hacked into Facebook in ‘the most extensive and grave’ case of social media hacking ever to come before a British court has been sentenced to eight months in prison.”
The Guardian, 17th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“National courts cannot force social networks to monitor for copyright infringement by users because it would not strike a ‘fair balance’ between the rights of rights holders and the rights of those platforms and its users, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Microsoft is to sue UK electronics retailer Comet for making tens of thousands of allegedly unauthorised CDs for its Windows operating system and selling them to customers. The US computing giant has issued proceedings against Comet for allegedly creating more than 94,000 counterfeit ‘recovery discs’ for its Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems and selling them to customers.”
The Guardian, 4th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Realchemie Nederland BV v Bayer CropScience AG (Case C-406/09); [2011] WLR (D) 350
“Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (OJ 2001 L 12, p1) applied to the recognition and enforcement of a decision of a court or tribunal that contained an order to pay a fine in order to ensure compliance with a judgment given in a civil and commercial matter. The costs relating to an exequatur (enforcement) procedure brought in one member state, in the course of which the recognition and enforcement was sought of a judgment given in another member state in proceedings seeking to enforce an intellectual property right, fell within article 14 of Parliament and Council Directive 2004/48/EC of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (OJ 2004 L 157, p 45).”
WLR Daily, 18th December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Court injunctions that force internet service providers (ISPs) to filter and monitor user traffic in order to prevent illegal file-sharing are contrary to EU law and fundamental rights, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A report into how a new digital copyright exchange (DCE) could work will be submitted to the Government before Parliament breaks up for summer next year, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“UK copyright reform could be ‘undermined’ if the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules that copyright levies must still be charged when rights holders have given their permission for work to be copied, an IT trade association has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“BT has been given 14 days to block access to a website accused of promoting illegal filesharing ‘on a grand scale’ by Hollywood studios, in the first high court ruling of its kind under UK copyright law.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Computer simulations of designs are not ‘unpatentable’ mental acts, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A pub landlady has won the latest stage of her fight to air Premier League games using a foreign TV decoder. Karen Murphy had to pay nearly £8,000 in fines and costs for using a cheaper Greek decoder in her Portsmouth pub to bypass controls over match screening. But she took her case to the European Court of Justice. The ECJ now says national laws which prohibit the import, sale or use of foreign decoder cards are contrary to the freedom to provide services.”
BBC News, 4th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“BBC Worldwide is suing an Italian television network owned by Silvio Berlusconi over claims that it has copied Strictly Come Dancing.”
BBC News, 21st September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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