The Dutch Court of Appeal in Leeuwarden has ruled in favor of an online market platform with regard to its liability for intellectual property infringements and the burden of policing for unlawful…
On 10 May, the District Court of The Hague extended an earlier ruling with regard to two access providers to block The Pirate Bay to several major Dutch access providers. The providers lament the…
In recent years, Italian courts have struggled to create a new figure, the ‘active hosting provider,’ whereby providers that do not offer any content themselves, can nonetheless be held liable with…
“The ruling confirms the exclusion of ideas from software copyright protection and enlightens certain grey zones of the Software Directive.”
The protection of computer programs is one of the nicest…
On 5 April 2012, the French Court of Cassation stayed of proceedings in a copyright infringement case opposing a French songwriter to an Austrian CD manufacturer and referred preliminary questions…
"One could say that the CJEU by its decision in the Bonnier-case has “defended” or "safeguarded" the right of civil enforcement by right holders against direct online infringers."
As with…
On April 24, 2012 the Advocate General Yves Bot delivered his opinion in the UsedSoft case (C-128/11) concerning exhaustion in digital products that have not been distributed on a material carrier…
UK: High Court Chancery Division, 26 March 2012, Golden Eye (International) Ltd v Telefonica UK Ltd.
Copyright owners ('owners of the copyrights in pornographic films') brought a claim for Norwich…
UK: High Court Chancery Division, 23 March 2012, Seaton v Seddon.
The members of the reggae band Musical Youth brought a case against their former solicitors with regards to the royalties due from a…
