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No surprise: EU law rules out general monitoring obligation

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

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

No Big Brother required: ECJ extends "no duty to monitor" protection to social networks

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Belgium, European Union
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  • March 30 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union has published its judgment in the case of SABAM v Netlog, in which it has ruled that the owner of an online social network cannot be obliged to install a general filtering system in order to prevent the unlawful use of protected works

A second tussle in Brussels over Google news

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • Belgium
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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

EU Advocate General says ISPs cannot be forced to block illegal downloads

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • Belgium, European Union
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  • April 22 2011

In a development with implications for the European Commission (EC) investigation into net neutrality, European Court of Justice (ECJ) Advocate General (AG) Pedro Cruz Villalon concluded in an advisory opinion that a Belgian court order that forces Internet service providers (ISPs) to filter or block web content in the interest of preventing unauthorized downloads of copyrighted material violates the fundamental rights of Internet users

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