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Technology Annual Review

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • March 11 2011

A month by month review of selected technology legal news from 2010

A stop to second-hand dealing in copyright protected downloads?

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • European Union
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  • May 22 2012

The Advocate General's decision in Axel W. Bierbach, administrator of UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp was released at the end of April

A round-up of developments

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • May 24 2012

In the case of SAS Institute v World Programming Limited, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "CJEU") has considered the limited extent to which certain elements of a computer program enjoy copyright protection

Technology annual review of 2011

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • February 29 2012

The year began as it meant to go on - with a high profile patent dispute in the mobile phone sector decided in the Court of Appeal

European High Court rules that ISPs do not have to monitor user traffic for illegal downloads

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • European Union
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  • December 3 2011

Internet service providers cannot be required to install filtering systems designed to monitor traffic on their networks for copyright-infringing material, according to a decision last month by Europe’s highest court

Digital media update

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Australia, European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 25 2012

Welcome to the January edition of our quarterly Digital Media Update

Downloads can be "re-sold"; but buyers are not "lawful acquirers"

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union
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  • May 1 2012

A preliminary ruling by Advocate-General Bot in UsedSoft v. Oracle has determined that users are allowed to re-sell and re-distribute software that has been acquired by purely online means

The Advocate General considers the principle of exhaustion of rights in downloaded software

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 30 2012

In a decision that makes software developers' fight against piracy more difficult, a preliminary ruling by Advocate-General Bot in Case C-12811 UsedSoft v. Oracle has determined that users are allowed to re-distribute not only software that has been initially delivered on physical media whose ultimate origin can be verified, but also software that has been acquired by purely online means and whose legitimacy cannot be ascertained by consumers

CMS quarterly communications update April 2012

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Austria, Bulgaria, European Union, Germany, Global, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2012

This edition includes contributions from the United Kingdom, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine

IT & outsourcing e-bulletin - a round-up of developments

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • July 31 2012

Ofcom has published a revised version of the Initial Obligations Code for ISPs and copyright owners in an effort to tackle online copyright infringement as per the provisions of the controversial Digital Economy Act