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Premier League tackles YouTube away from home

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 11 2009

The clash between old and new forms of media is increasingly coming to the forefront of intellectual property law, with the Internet blurring hitherto clear distinctions in both legislation and precedent

Game over for a 'powerful & energetic' internet seller?

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2007

On 18 October 2006, Judge Fysh handed down judgment in a case between the Japanese electronics company, KK Sony Computer Entertainment & Anor ("Sony"), and a Hong Kong company, Pacific Game Technology (Holding) Ltd ("Pacific"

A picture is worth two thousand... pounds

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 8 2009

Getty Images, the stock photography agency, has won another litigation dispute over unauthorised use of one of its digital images

Guidance on grant of Norwich Pharmacal order in relation to website users

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2008

In Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Ltd & Ors -v- Hargreaves 2007 EWHC 2375 (QB) (October 2007), the High Court clarified the circumstances in which Norwich Pharmacal relief will be granted to reveal the personal details of individuals posting allegedly defamatory material on a website

Is a business liable for its customers’ online postings?

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 19 2007

Herbert Smith LLP recently acted on the first case to reach the English High Court involving a defamatory blog (internet jargon for web logs of people’s thoughts on a particular topic

Online advertising - legal ruling on trade marks as keywords

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 16 2009

A report issued recently by the Internet Advertising Bureau shows that, for the first time, advertisers now spend more on online advertising than on television advertising

Employee wrongfully dismissed after posting his views on gay marriage

  • William Fry
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 9 2013

The UK High Court recently decided that an employee posting his views about gay marriage on his Facebook profile did not constitute misconduct and his

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Ltd v Hargreaves Norwich Pharmacal order disclosing identity of web message board authors

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 28 2007

Sheffield Wednesday (The Owls), its directors, chief executive and manager brought these proceedings against a fan, Neil Hargreaves, who owns and operates a fans’ website

Google not liable for defamatory comments in search snippets

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 27 2009

Google has been found not liable for defamatory comments in its automatically generated search results

High Court orders a football website to reveal identity of individuals posting defamatory statements

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 17 2007

On 18 October 2007, the High Court gave judgment in a case where the claimants were seeking an order for a website operator to reveal the identity of users of the site who the claimants accused of posting numerous defamatory statements on the website’s message boards