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Commission adopts decision against music collecting societies

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • July 18 2008

On 16 July 2008 the European Commission adopted a decision finding that 24 performing right collecting societies had infringed the competition rules on restrictive business practices

Swedish Market Court makes ECJ reference about collecting society tariffs for music in television broadcasts

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, Sweden
  • -
  • March 26 2007

The Swedish Market Court, the court of final instance in cases brought under the Competition Act, has for the first time decided to make a reference to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for a preliminary ruling

Impossible to determine whether fees were ‘excessive'

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Netherlands
  • -
  • April 1 2007

On March, 6, 2007, the Netherlands Competition Authority (NCA) concluded that it was impossible to determine the excessive nature of fees applied by royalty collection organisations

Advertising & marketing: recent developments of importance

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 3 2008

Advertising law in Canada encapsulates a multitude of legal issues and is governed by federal and provincial laws as well as self-regulatory codes, policies and bodies

Commission prohibits practices which prevent European collecting societies offering choice to music authors and users

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • July 31 2008

The European Commission has adopted an antitrust decision prohibiting 24 European collecting societies from restricting competition by limiting their ability to offer their services to authors and commercial users outside their domestic territory

Caution for competition defence

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 31 2008

In The Football Association Premier League Limited & Others v LCD Publishing Limited 2007 EWHC 3171 (CH), the English High Court considered an application to strike out a restraint of trade and competition defence

JFTC conducts inspection of JSARAC

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • May 27 2008

On April 23, 2008 the JFTC conducted an onsite inspection of the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC

Arista Records LLC, et al v Lime Group LLC, et al

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 12 2007

Thirteen record companies who filed a copyright infringement suit against the operators of a peer-to-peer network, Lime Wire, obtained dismissal of Lime Wire’s antitrust counter-claims

Repercussions expected on medicine advertising campaign in Mexico

  • Olivares & Cía
  • -
  • Mexico
  • -
  • November 2 2009

A recent high-profile marketing initiative by a Mexican pharmaceutical company appears to be a clear example of unfair competition

European court ruling on copyright royalties

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, Sweden
  • -
  • January 23 2009

The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has issued an important judgment in December 2008 on excessive and discriminatory pricing issues in respect of copyright royalties by a copyright collection society STIM, on a reference from the Swedish courts under Article 234 EC on a claim by the commercial broadcasters Kanal 5 Limited and TV4 AB

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