Liability

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Photo by Rafael Garcin on Unsplash On the 16th of October 2020, one year ago, a middle-school teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded by a terrorist who would not know of his existence if not for a…

 The growing proclivity of issuing “dynamic injunctions” to block the online illegal diffusion and distribution of audio-visual copyrighted content has recently caught the attention of several…

 As readers of this blog will be aware, on 22 June the European Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down its ruling in joined cases C-682/18 (YouTube) and C-683/18 (Cyando) concerning the liability of…

  Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay According to a recent Oberlandesgericht (Court of Appeal - CoA) Cologne ruling, providers of DNS resolvers may be held accountable to DNS block domain names used…

  Photo by Mizter_X94 via Pixabay In Part 1 of this blog post, we explained the importance of the CJEU judgment in joined cases C-682/18 (YouTube) and C-683/18 (Cyando) for the application of…

  Photo by Mizter_X94 via Pixabay The European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling in joined cases C-682/18 (YouTube) and C-683/18 (Cyando), concerning platform liability for copyright-infringing user…

Navy’s failure to track simultaneous users created copyright infringement liability. Though the Court of Federal Claims correctly found that the U.S. Navy was deemed to have received an implied-in…

  Image by Leni_und_Tom from Pixabay In late 2020, the Supreme Court of New Zealand gave judgment on copyright aspects of the dispute on whether Kim Dotcom and other’s involved in the Megagroup…

  Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay As reported in a previous blog post, the Australian government has been intensively negotiating the Australian version of the press publishers’ right, the News…