The UK Government Department for Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) has today published its initial response to the public consultation on the Online Harms White Paper, published in April 2019....more
2/13/2020
/ Designated Contract Markets (DCMs) ,
Fear of Harm ,
Freedom of Expression ,
Internet ,
OFCOM ,
Online Communities ,
Regulatory Burden ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Reporting Requirements ,
User-Generated Content ,
Websites
On 9 March 2019, the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications published its report on “Regulating in a digital World”. ...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
Drama at the European Parliament: whoever thought the dispute within the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) around the adoption of a new regulation dealing with online transmissions by broadcasters and retransmissions...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 8 September 2016, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down judgment C-160/15 on the means of hyperlinking which caught quite some attention. It has become known as the GS Media decision. In essence, this CJEU...more
2/14/2017
/ Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Creative Commons License ,
Digital Media ,
EU ,
Germany ,
Hyperlink ,
Public Communications ,
Third-Party ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
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