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Question on web browsing and copyright infringement referred to CJEU

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • Belarus, United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2013

On 17 April 2013, the Supreme Court of England and Wales provisionally held in Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v The Newspaper Licensing

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation v Newzbin Ltd 2010 EWHC 608 (Ch): major victory for film industry against online piracy

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 3 2010

Mr Justice Kitchin's judgment in this case represents a major victory for the film industry against online piracy

No “safe harbor” for BitTorrent website operator

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a summary judgment ruling in favor of seven film studios finding that the defendant induced

Google held liable for copyright infringement for bulk scanning of books

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • February 28 2010

The Paris Court of First Instance's third chamber has ruled that Google Inc.’s bulk scanning of books for its Google Book Search website, done without permission from copyright holders, infringed the copyrights on hundreds of French books

Jurisdiction to award damages for online infringement of “personality rights” clarified

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 29 2011

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that victims of infringements of “personality rights” by means of the internet can chose to bring actions before the courts of the Member State in which they reside in respect of all the damage caused

Allegedly libellous comments on bulletin boards: the hosting defence

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 26 2010

In Imran Karim v Newsquest Media Group Ltd 2009 EWHC 3205 (QB), Mr Justice Eady granted an application to strike out a libel claim brought by an ex-solicitor against Newsquest

Statutory damages: foreign works and the U.S. live broadcast exemption

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 16 2009

In a class action led by the Football Association Premier League (FAPL) and U.S. music publishers Bourne against YouTube and its owners Google (The FAPL v YouTube Inc. (US District Court Southern District of New York)) filed on 4 May 2007, a U.S. District Court judge held that, because the FAPL did not register its broadcasts of Premier League matches with the US Copyright Office, it cannot claim statutory damages under the US Copyright Act against YouTube in respect of allegedly copyright infringing material uploaded by users to the video sharing site

A combination of non-conclusory factual allegations satisfies Twombly for a Sherman Act 1 claim and can proceed to trial

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2010

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently reversed a district court decision dismissing a complaint alleging the defendants conspired to fix prices of digital music in violation of the Sherman Act 1

How deep is the safe harbor?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 30 2012

In a case that has now been in litigation for more than five years, and in an appeal that drew close to a hundred amici briefs, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has explained its position on the contours of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DCMA's) safe harbor provision that limits the liability of online service providers who permit users to post content on their websites

Ninth Circuit no friend to Winklevoss twins: Facebook settlement stands

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 29 2011

Putting what appears to be an end to a highly publicized legal battle dramatized in the movie The Social Network, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a $65 million settlement agreement made between brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, their former classmate Divya Narendra, and social-networking website Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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