In a copyright action brought by Ukranian figure skater Oksana Baiul and her company, Oksana Ltd., a federal district court did not err in dismissing her claims, with prejudice, after judgment on the…
A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law and the case has been discussed on the Kluwer Copyright Blog here.
The CJEU held that Article 2(a) and Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/…
Legal enforcement of open source software license violations, in particular violations of the General Public License (GPL), has been established in Germany for quite some time. Back in 2004, the…
Over the course of the last couple of months, we witnessed an outburst of creativity concerning the wording of Art 13 of the Digital Single Market Directive (‘the Directive’). Last week, the…
To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the top 3 most-read posts from each of our…
A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law
The Supreme Court held that even in cases where many photographs are involved, the courts must carry out a separate examination of each…
With the growth of the ‘data-driven economy'and the rise of ‘Big Data’ have come calls for the introduction of a novel property right in data. Apparently in response to demands from the German…
A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law.
The Estonian Authors’ Society (EAÜ) is a collecting society that administers authors' economic rights in Estonia. The EAÜ sued a music…
In the case Staatlich genehmigte Gesellschaft der Autoren, Komponisten und Musikverleger registrierte Genossenschaft mbH (AKM) V Zürs.net Betriebs GmbH (C-138/16, Judgment of 16 March 2017) the…
On 21 May 2015, the IP specialist chamber of the High Court of First Instance of Paris handed down one of its worst rulings in copyright law: in breach of the most basic EU and French…
