“Government plans to curb illegal filesharing received a significant boost on Wednesday, as a judicial review of the controversial Digital Economy Act failed to halt the legislation.”
The Guardian, 20th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Archive for the 'copyright' Category
Filesharing: BT and TalkTalk fail in challenge to Digital Economy Act – The Guardian
Published April 20, 2011 copyright , electronic commerce , internet , judicial review , news Leave a CommentCopyright law in Britain is ‘crazy’ – Daily Telegraph
Published April 19, 2011 copyright , illegality , news Leave a Comment“Britain needs to radically update its copyright laws, which criminalise millions of consumers who use iPods, according to a leading watchdog.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th April 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Digital Economy Act: filesharing code delayed by six months – The Guardian
Published April 6, 2011 codes of practice , copyright , electronic commerce , internet , news Leave a Comment“The government’s code to clamp down on illegal filesharing will not come into force for another six months as the Digital Economy Act is held up by a high court challenge.”
The Guardian, 5th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Football Dataco Ltd and others v Sportradar GmbH and another – WLR Daily
Published April 1, 2011 copyright , database right , EC law , jurisdiction , law reports Leave a CommentFootball Dataco Ltd and others v Sportradar GmbH and another [2011] EWCA Civ 330; [2011] WLR (D) 113
“There was no good arguable case of copyright infringement under article 3 of Directive 96/9/EC such as to establish that the English court had jurisdiction for the purposes of article 27 of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 where, even though the collection of data might involve some intellectual creation, what was alleged to have been copied was mere data on any reasonable view.”
WLR Daily, 29th March 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Digital music player ads must not encourage copying, rules ad regulator – OUT-LAW.com
Published April 1, 2011 advertising , copyright , internet , news Leave a Comment“A company must change the way it advertises its digital music player because the ads encourage people to copy music in a way that breached copyright law, the advertising industry regulator has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 31st March 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Digital Economy Act: further delay to illegal downloading measures – The Guardian
Published March 30, 2011 copyright , internet , judicial review , news Leave a Comment“Plans to send thousands of warning letters to alleged illegal downloaders have been delayed until next year as the government’s embattled Digital Economy Act is held up by a high court judicial review.”
The Guardian, 28th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Lily Allen wins damages over Mail Online article – The Guardian
Published March 25, 2011 copyright , damages , internet , news , privacy Leave a Comment“Lily Allen has won damages from Associated Newspapers in a privacy and copyright action relating to pictures of her home published by Mail Online.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
