COVID-19 and IT service provider contracts: A checklist for force majeure events -
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the various restrictions that have been implemented in response to it, are causing extraordinary business...more
The Supreme Court handed down its much anticipated judgment in Cartier International AG v British Telecommunications Plc yesterday. ...more
6/14/2018
/ Appeals ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Counterfeit Goods Regulation ,
Counterfeiting ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Reversal ,
Trademarks ,
UK ,
UK Supreme Court ,
Websites
On 16 January 2018, the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council sought guidance from the Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) regarding the long-debated Draft Copyright Directive. ...more
On 29 November 2017, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down a decision on a video recording service that stores TV programmes online in a cloud (C-265/16 – VCAST). ...more
12/5/2017
/ Broadcasting ,
Cloud Storage ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Electronic Data Transmissions ,
EU ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Internet ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Websites
Swiftly following the CJEU decision in Filmspeler, in which the Court found that the selling of multimedia players with add-ons to illegal streaming websites amounted to copyright infringement, the CJEU has confirmed that an...more
6/30/2017
/ BitTorrent ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Electronic Communications ,
File Sharing ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Metadata ,
Peer-to-Peer ,
Piracy ,
Pirate Bay ,
Search Engines ,
Telecommunications ,
Websites
Since the first proposals for amendments to the European Commission’s draft copyright directive were leaked earlier this month, we have seen quite some discussion on what the Digital Single Market will bring about. The leaked...more
3/20/2017
/ Copyright ,
Digital Media ,
Digital Single Market ,
EU ,
EU Directive ,
European Commission ,
File Sharing ,
Infringement ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Websites
On 7 February, negotiators for the European Parliament, Member States and the Commission agreed the proposal for a regulation on EU cross-border portability of online content services. This is the first agreement relating to...more
2/10/2017
/ Cross-Border ,
Digital Media ,
Digital Single Market ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Member State ,
On-Demand Services ,
Online Platforms ,
Telecommunications ,
UK Parliament
The cases that deal with the meaning of “communication to the public” continue: in a current reference for a preliminary ruling, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) will have to decide whether the operators of websites that...more
2/9/2017
/ Advocate General ,
BitTorrent ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Electronic Communications ,
EU ,
File Sharing ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Metadata ,
Netherlands ,
Peer-to-Peer ,
Piracy ,
Pirate Bay ,
Search Engines ,
Websites