Bundestag Building, CC-by-SA 3.0 Jürgen Mattern
In Part 1 of this blog post, we introduced the core mechanism of ex-ante protection against the blocking of legal uploads in Germany's implementation…
Bundestag Building, CC-by-SA 3.0 Jürgen Mattern
On 28 May the German Bundesrat approved the law transposing Directive (EU) 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSMD), thus finalizing…
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Despite the turbulent times Italian politics have experienced in the past year -…
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In a trial to assess the quantum of financial loss in the IPEC, FBT Productions LLC v Let Them Eat Vinyl Limited [2021] EWHC 932 (IPEC), Deputy High Court Judge…
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-…
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Copyright law continues to confront an age-old question: how to best balance copyright interests?
This year marks the…
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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…
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Recently, the Court of Appeal in TuneIn v Warner Music UK Ltd & Anor confirmed the continued application of “retained EU law” in the UK on the…
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Although the legal consequences of infringement of different IP rights (e.g. copyright, trademarks and patents) are in principle identically…
This blog looks at Article 15 of the (Directive on Copyright in the Single Digital Market (CDSM Directive), the press publishers’ right.
Article 15, as regular readers of this blog will recall…