“Individuals who access information about football goals that is stored in a database do not infringe on the database rights of football authorities, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd: (Case C-406/10); [2012] WLR (D) 131
“The functionality of a computer program, the programming language and the format of data files used in a computer program in order to exploit certain of its functions did not constitute a form of expression of that program within the meaning of article 1(2) of Council Directive 91/250/EEC on the legal protection of computer programs (OJ 1991 L122, p 42) and, as such, were not protected by copyright in computer programs for the purposes of that Directive.”
WLR Daily, 2nd May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
DR v NCB – Nordisk Copyright Bureau (Case C-510/10); [2012] WLR (D) 127
“The exception in article 5(2)(d) of and Preamble 41 to Directive 2001/29 which permitted a broadcaster to use their own facilities or ‘those of a person acting on behalf of and under the responsibility of the broadcasting organisation’ to reproduce works by way of ephemeral recordings without the author’s consent, entitled a broadcaster to use a third party to reproduce the works either if that third party acted on their behalf or if they were under the responsibility of the broadcaster.”
WLR Daily, 26th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 30th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Writing exceptions to copyright into UK law will not deliver economic growth and would in fact ‘remove the core asset value’ in creators’ content, a number of licensing bodies have said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A High Court judge has laid out flaws in using internet protocol (IP) addresses to identify alleged copyright infringers which should have ‘ramifications’ for how imminent new anti-piracy rules operate, a campaign group has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Copyright licensing processes in the UK could be more ‘streamlined, easier and cheaper to use’ than is currently the case, a report into the framework has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A design company has been ordered to pay a Formula One (F1) team over £20,000 after it used computer-aided design (CAD) files belonging to the team to help form aerodynamic features for rival cars.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Ex-members of a child reggae band that hit the heights with a song about a stewing pot 30 years ago have lost a legal battle with their former lawyers.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The family of a Sheffield student who faces extradition to the United States has confirmed an appeal has been lodged by lawyers.”
BBC News, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“‘Communication to the public’ for the purposes of article 8(2) of Directive 92/100/EEC did not cover the broadcasting, free of charge, of phonograms within private dental practices engaged in professional economic activity for the benefit of patients of those practices and enjoyed by them without any active choice on their part. Therefore such an act of transmission did not entitle the phonogram producers to the payment of remuneration.”
WLR Daily, 15th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“In an extract from his new book, How to Fix Copyright, William Patry calls for a radical overhaul of copyright law.”
The Guardian, 13th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Home Secretary Theresa May has approved the extradition to the US of a student accused of copyright infringement.”
BBC News, 13th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The pub landlady who was fined for screening FA Premier League (FAPL) football matches using a foreign satellite decoder has had her criminal conviction overturned by the High Court.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“BT and Talk Talk have lost an appeal over controversial measures to tackle copyright infringement online.”
BBC News, 6th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Football Dataco Ltd and Others v Yahoo! UK Ltd and Others (Case C-604/10); [2012] WLR (D) 57
“A ‘database’ within the meaning of article 1(2) of Directive 96/9/EC was protected by the copyright laid down by article 3(1) of the Directive provided that the selection or arrangement of the data which it contained amounted to an original expression of the creative freedom of its author, which was a matter for the national court to determine.”
WLR Daily, 1st March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Football authorities in England and Scotland have had a court claim over football fixtures’ copyright rejected. European judges said compiling match fixture lists needed ‘significant’ work, but did not entail the creativity required for copyright protection.”
BBC News, 1st March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The filesharing website The Pirate Bay has come a step closer to being blocked in the UK after the high court ruled that the site breaches copyright laws on a large scale.”
The Guardian, 20th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“National courts cannot force social networks to monitor for copyright infringement by users because it would not strike a ‘fair balance’ between the rights of rights holders and the rights of those platforms and its users, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Business customers of online news clippings services will pay a lower fixed price licence to access newspaper content via those providers following an interim ruling by the Copyright Tribunal.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
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