Search results
Order by most recent / most popular / relevance
Results: 1-5 of 5
Spiller v Joseph: defamation and “honest comment"
- McDermott Will & Emery
- -
- United Kingdom
- -
- January 25 2011
The Supreme Court of England and Wales in Spiller v Joseph 2010 UKSC 53 has declined to alter radically the defence of "fair comment" in libel claims
JIH v News Group Newspapers Ltd: privacy, interim injunction, open justice and refusal to grant anonymity
- McDermott Will & Emery
- -
- United Kingdom
- -
- January 25 2011
In JIH v News Group Newspapers Ltd 2010 EWHC 2818 (QB), the High Court of England and Wales refused to continue an anonymity order, despite the parties having agreed thereto, but agreed to continue an order to withhold all information concerning the subject-matter of the case
Lidl SNC v Vierzon Distribution SA: comparative advertising and products sold in supermarkets
- McDermott Will & Emery
- -
- European Union
- -
- January 25 2011
The fact that there are differences in the extent to which you might like to eat certain food products depending on their place of production, the ingredients and who produced them, does not, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said in Lidl SNC v Vierzon Distribution SA C-15909, preclude the possibility that an advertisement comparing such products (by reference to price alone, as opposed by reference to any of their other attributes) will fall within the boundaries of permitted comparative advertising, provided the advertisement is not misleading
The Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd v Meltwater Holding BV: online commercial media monitoring services and the end user licence debate
- McDermott Will & Emery
- -
- United Kingdom
- -
- January 25 2011
This ruling from Mrs Justice Proudman confirms that businesses using an online commercial media monitoring service require a licence from the Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd
ITV Broadcasting Ltd v tv Catch Up Ltd: communication to the public of a broadcast
- McDermott Will & Emery
- -
- United Kingdom
- -
- January 25 2011
Refusing the Defendant's application for summary judgment in ITV Broadcasting Ltd v TV Catch Up Ltd 2010 EWHC 3063 (Ch), Mr Justice Kitchin has held that, as regards broadcasts, the meaning of communication to the public within Section 20 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 is not limited to broadcasts but extends to all communications by electronic means, whether one-to-one or one-to-many
