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Recently, the Court of Appeal in TuneIn v Warner Music UK Ltd & Anor confirmed the continued application of “retained EU law” in the UK on the thorny issue…
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In May 2019 right after the adoption of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, the Polish Government initiated a legal challenge before the Court of Justice of…
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The decade-long titanic battle between Oracle and Google over whether copyright law forbids unlicensed reimplementations of parts of the Java Application Program…
Finding that the government edicts doctrine covers legislative works, Court holds that Georgia’s annotations are inherently public domain material because they are authored by an arm of the…
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In this new series we will be updating readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. This will include Court of Justice (CJEU) and General Court…
To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the top 3 most-read posts from each of our…
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On March 9th, 2021 the CJEU delivered its eagerly awaited decision on the VG Kunst case (C‑392/19).
The facts of the case are interesting, since the question of…
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Summary
The IPEC has held than an employee produced software in the course of his employment, despite his claims he did most of his work in his own time, at…
By disallowing multiple statutory damages awards under the Copyright Act, the Ninth Circuit could cause future plaintiffs under similar facts to sue each defendant separately.
In a suit—in which a…
