Case Law

 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…

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! We started this rubric in the beginning of 2021. In this series, we update readers…

  Image by Mudassar Iqbal from Pixabay Introduction In a previous post on this Blog, we analysed the EU case law relating to the emerging services of Cloud Service Providers (C-265/16, V-CAST), as…

 Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here, and part 4 will be…

 We are happy to announce that going forward we will be publishing an annual review of the case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof, authored by Jan Bernd Nordemnann (NORDEMANN law firm). In order to…