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Betting rights hunting the snark

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 21 2009

Recently, tournament organisers and other sport-related entities have started to speak about “betting rights” as if a new form of legal property had dawned

How legal are the football broadcasts in pubs?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 31 2008

In the case of Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services Limited 2007 EWHC 3091 (Admin), the English High Court upheld the finding of the Portsmouth Crown Court that the Appellant had committed an offence under Section 297(1) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA

Circumventing conditional access, “illicit device” and copyright

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 30 2008

On 24 June 2008, in The Football Association Premier League Ltd v QC Leisure 2008 EWHC 1411, the FA Premier League (FAPL) suffered another potential setback in its campaign against pub landlords using foreign decoder cards in the United Kingdom to access foreign transmissions of live Premier League football matches, and the decoder suppliers

Conditional access - “illicit device” and Euro defences

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 10 2008

Karen Murphy, you will recall, is the pub landlady from Southsea, England who liked to entertain customers with live Premier League matches courtesy of the Greek satellite system, Nova

Hey Papi! Big Pimpin' thinks you ain’t no playa when it comes to his 4040 mark

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 26 2010

As many of you baseball fans surely know, "4040" is a term reserved for ballplayers who have hit 40 home runs and stolen 40 bases in a single season

Hotel operators must pay for TV programs

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Germany
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  • October 7 2011

The Higher Regional Court of Munich confirmed in a decision that has now become legally binding (Decision dated 30 June 2011 file no.: 6 Sch 1409 WG) that hotel operators are obligated by law to pay appropriate remuneration to private broadcasting companies for the use of TV and radio programs