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Ambush marketing

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • March 29 2011

At the FIFA World Cup in 2010, billions of football fans around the world enjoyed weeks of great sporting action

Opinion of the Advocate General threatens the revenues of sports rights holders

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 4 2011

The Advocate General delivered an Opinion yesterday in a test case on the ability of sports rights holders under EU law to limit the rights granted to satellite broadcasters to a given national territory

Brussels court refers two questions to the ECJ on injunctions against ISPs over illegal P2P file sharing

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Belgium
  • -
  • May 10 2010

In a case between the collecting society SABAM and internet service provider Scarlet, relating to the measures which can be imposed on Scarlet to prevent illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing over its network, the Brussels Court of Appeal has referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) two questions about the legality (including a test of proportionality) of the injunctions requested by SABAM

Illegal internet file downloads under HADOPI 1 and 2

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
  • -
  • May 10 2010

In 2007 the French government requested a commission led by Denis Olivennes to broker an agreement between organisations representing the music and film industry and internet service providers on proposals to combat unlawful file-sharing

Brussels court refers two questions to the ECJ on injunctions against ISPs over illegal P2P file sharing

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Belgium
  • -
  • May 10 2010

In a case between the collecting society SABAM and internet service provider Scarlet, relating to the measures which can be imposed on Scarlet to prevent illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing over its network, the Brussels Court of Appeal has referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) two questions about the legality (including a test of proportionality) of the injunctions requested by SABAM

Hot pursuit of mere conduits

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Sweden
  • -
  • January 11 2010

Following the criminal conviction of the Pirate Bay defendants in April, rights-owners have been pursuing civil cases, including against ISPs, in an attempt to close down the Pirate Bay site

Digital Economy Bill: dealing with online copyright infringers

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 11 2010

The introduction of a Digital Economy Bill was announced in the Queens Speech on 18 November

The battle for a unified media market

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • January 8 2010

A common policy agenda for an efficient online media market is badly needed

Comparative advertising of a generic medicine

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • December 15 2009

It is not necessary within the meaning of Article L. 713-6 of the French Intellectual Property Code (“CPI”) to mention the brand of the reference product in comparative advertising for a generic medicine, as the healthcare professionals to which the advertising is directed have other means (namely, the INN - international non-proprietary name) by which to identify the corresponding reference product

The French “three strikes” system is raised from the dead

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • December 14 2009

On 22 September, the French Parliament passed a bill providing a new version of the "three strikes" system against persistent illegal filesharers

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