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Conditional access - “illicit device” and Euro defences

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 10 2008

Karen Murphy, you will recall, is the pub landlady from Southsea, England who liked to entertain customers with live Premier League matches courtesy of the Greek satellite system, Nova

How legal are the football broadcasts in pubs?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 31 2008

In the case of Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services Limited 2007 EWHC 3091 (Admin), the English High Court upheld the finding of the Portsmouth Crown Court that the Appellant had committed an offence under Section 297(1) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA

Circumventing conditional access, “illicit device” and copyright

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 30 2008

On 24 June 2008, in The Football Association Premier League Ltd v QC Leisure 2008 EWHC 1411, the FA Premier League (FAPL) suffered another potential setback in its campaign against pub landlords using foreign decoder cards in the United Kingdom to access foreign transmissions of live Premier League football matches, and the decoder suppliers