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…
Estonian Supreme Court, 7 February 2012, Case No3-2-1-155-11, Herlitz PBS AG vs. Realister OÜ (plaintiff in the prededing proceeding).
The Estonian Supreme Court found in its recent judgement in…
Patents Court London, 12 January 2012, Temple Island Collections Ltd v New English Teas Ltd & Nicholas John Houghton.
A photograph of a red Routemaster bus travelling across Westminster Bridge with…
