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EU closer to making pan-European music licensing a reality

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • May 29 2009

The European Commission has published a report indicating that the Online Commerce Roundtable has made progress towards pan-European music licensing becoming a reality

Webcasting music services not “interactive” when users cannot directly control the songs they hear

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2009

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a district court judgment that an internet radio service was not an “interactive service” within the meaning of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and hence was not liable for copyright infringement for failure to pay license fees

EU closer to making pan-European music licensing a reality

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • May 29 2009

The European Commission has published a report indicating that the Online Commerce Roundtable has made progress towards pan-European music licensing becoming a reality

KSR based renewed motion on obviousness is a winner

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 26 2009

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court grant of a post-KSR renewed summary judgment on obviousness (after denying a pre-KSR motion

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

Privacy: UK press use of material posted on social networking sites

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 16 2009

The UK Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has upheld a complaint regarding the use by newspapers of material that has been uploaded by members of the public on social networking sites

Future of European-wide music licences for online exploitation Commission publishes summary report and list of contributions to monitoring

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 31 2008

The Commission has published a summary report and a list of contributions by stakeholders who have answered the 17 January 2007 call for comments in relation to Recommendation 2005737EC of 18 October 2005 on collective cross-border management of copyright and related rights for legitimate online music services

Technology to avoid disputes between search engines and newspapersthe ACAP project

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • January 31 2008

ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) is a technology that was launched on 29 November 2007 “as a workable, nonproprietary global permissions tool to facilitate the relationship between content owners and search engines”

Commission completes impact assessment of online music recommendation

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • February 15 2008

As a result of its recent assessment, the European Commission has concluded that Recommendation 2005737EC on collective cross-border management of copyright and related rights for legitimate online music services has, indeed, had an impact on the licensing marketplace and is endorsed by a number of right-holders, rights managers and music users

Commission finds U.S. anti-gambling laws infringe WTO rules

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • June 19 2009

In a report published on 10 June 2009, the European Commission has found that U.S. laws prohibiting the cross-border supply of remote gambling and betting services and the enforcement of those laws against EU companies are in violation of Articles XVI (Market Access) and XVII (National Treatment) of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and are not justified under Article XIV (General Exceptions

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