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No surprise: EU law rules out general monitoring obligation

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Belgium, European Union
  • -
  • November 25 2011

On Thursday 24 November, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") rendered its decision in Scarlet v Sabam (C-7010

Injunctions against ISPs - the SabamScarlet ruling

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Belgium
  • -
  • October 23 2007

The President of the Brussels Court of First Instance (the ‘President’) ruled on 29 June 2007 that an Internet Service Provider (ISP) active in the Belgian market must implement technical measures to prevent illegal peer-to-peer music file exchanges

A new chapter in the battle between IP right holders and ISPs

  • NautaDutilh
  • -
  • Belgium, European Union
  • -
  • March 19 2010

On 28 January 2010, the Brussels Court of Appeal issued a decision in a case brought by Sabam, a copyright collecting society, against Scarlet, an Internet service provider (ISP

Brussels court refers two questions to the ECJ on injunctions against ISPs over illegal P2P file sharing

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Belgium
  • -
  • May 10 2010

In a case between the collecting society SABAM and internet service provider Scarlet, relating to the measures which can be imposed on Scarlet to prevent illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing over its network, the Brussels Court of Appeal has referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) two questions about the legality (including a test of proportionality) of the injunctions requested by SABAM

Brussels court refers two questions to the ECJ on injunctions against ISPs over illegal P2P file sharing

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Belgium
  • -
  • May 10 2010

In a case between the collecting society SABAM and internet service provider Scarlet, relating to the measures which can be imposed on Scarlet to prevent illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing over its network, the Brussels Court of Appeal has referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) two questions about the legality (including a test of proportionality) of the injunctions requested by SABAM

A second tussle in Brussels over Google news

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • Belgium
  • -
  • May 21 2011

The Belgian Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court’s 2007 ruling in Copiepresse v. Google, affirming that Google’s practice of posting snippets of newspaper articles (along with links to the newspapers’ websites) constituted copyright infringement

Google makes the news by infringing the copyright in news articles...

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Belgium
  • -
  • May 10 2011

The Belgian Court of Appeal has recently upheld a 2007 decision that internet giant Google has infringed the copyright in news article snippets published on its Google News website

The legality of ordering ISPs to install filtering and blocking systems to protect IP rights

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Belgium, European Union
  • -
  • May 31 2011

In Scarlet Extended SA v Société Belge des Auteurs Compositeurs et Editeurs C-7010, the Advocate General (AG) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has given his opinion on whether it is lawful for a national court to impose an order on an internet service provider (ISP) to make in impossible for its customers to send or receive, by means of peer-to-peer software, particular music files

Court of Appeal of Antwerp finds that the Pirate Bay website must be blocked

  • Stibbe
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  • Belgium
  • -
  • November 22 2011

On 3 October 2011, the Court of Appeal of Antwerp issued a judgment in cease-anddesist proceedings between a non-profit association established by Belgian video manufacturers, the Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation (“BAF”), and the internet service providers Telenet and Belgacom

ECJ finds ISP filtering falls foul of EU law

  • Pitmans LLP
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  • Belgium, European Union
  • -
  • December 2 2011

The ECJ has held that an order imposed by a Belgian court, which required an internet service provider (“ISP”) to filter and block access by its customers to files containing infringing copies of musical works, was incompatible with EU law. (Scarlet Extended SA v Société belge des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs SCRL, Case C-7010, 24 November 2011

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