German Court of First instance rules that YouTube is only liable for secondary liability for user's infringing uploads, but must prevent future infringements of identified works by screening of and…
The German Federal Court of Justice rejects liability for image search thumbnails even if they are indexed on websites showing the images without permission as long as other websites did so with the…
Copyright law has developed in close connection with technological evolution. This is particularly true of digital technologies, especially the Internet, which, since the mid-1990s, has generated…
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…
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…
