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  Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash This morning the CJEU delivered its much awaited judgment in Case C-401/19 - Poland v Parliament and Council. In simple terms, the main issue before the Court was…

  Photo by Rio Lecatompessy on Unsplash Original Beauty Technology Company Limited & others v G4K Fashion Limited & others, [2021] EWHC 3439 (Ch) The High Court has recently awarded £450,000 in…

  Image by 420494 via Pixabay On 8 February 2022, the Italian Supreme Court (the Corte di Cassazione) issued an order that intervened on the interpretation of the quotation exception under Article 70…

Because the artists who would form part of the class had entered into licensing agreements with varying terms, individual issues would prevail over common questions. A district court improperly…

 Readers of this blog will be familiar with the English High Court’s strong track record in issuing injunctions to compel internet service providers (“ISPs”) to block access to copyright-infringing…

Google prevails in what it has called "the copyright case of the decade." Google LLC’s copying of approximately 11,000 lines of code from the Java SE application programming interface to create the…

  Photo by Álvaro Serrano on Unsplash There has been widespread press coverage of Meghan Markle’s (the Duchess of Sussex) recent success in a claim which she brought against the publishers of the…

Martin Garrix backstage during day three of Web Summit 2017. Photo by Seb Daly/ Web Summit via Sportsfile CC BY 2.0. On December 17, 2021, in a big win for electronic dance music (EDM) artists, the…

A reasonable jury could find the design for children’s pajamas with the phrase “i love you” repeated in italics to be substantially similar to Target’s products with the same phrase and design. In a…