UK: CSC Media Group Ltd v. Video Performance Ltd, Court of Appeal Civil Division, 27 May 2011.
Collective management: The Court of Appeal reversed the High Court's judgement and reinstated the…
Finland: Finreactor I, Supreme Court (Korkein oikeus), 30 June 2010.
Filesharing: The defendants were administrators of the Finreactor BitTorrent file sharing network. The networks' users could…
On 19 November 1992, the European Council adopted the Directive 92/100/EEC on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property (now…
One of the recent judgements of the Polish Supreme Court provides a good opportunity to review the basic rules applying to copyright contracts in Poland. The Polish copyright law treats copyright…
The question, whether software licences for computer programs that were purchased in an intangible form (via download from the sellers' server) can be resold by the first acquirer and used by the…
BELGIUM - In a case of SABAM (the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers) versus a counterfeits dealer, the Belgian Supreme Courts finds that in litigations against copyright infringers…
DENMARK - An end user of the Direct Connect file sharing network was found liable for copyright infringements. However, the Supreme Court did not agree with the right holders (respondents) that the…
On 3 May 2011, the Paris Court of Appeal dismissed the claims of copyright infringement brought by the Syndicat National de l’Edition Phonographique (SNEP- trade association of the French recording…
The commented decision may at first glance appear to be of limited importance only, but after closer examination it contains two interesting points of more general significance.
The basic facts are…
