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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

Taiwan decriminalises specific types of secondary use of works

  • Formosa Transnational
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  • Taiwan
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  • March 24 2010

On 10th February 2010 Article 37 of the Copyright Act was amended and promulgated by Presidential Order Hua-Zong-(1)-Yi-Zih 09900029991 in order to decriminalise certain specific types of secondary use, with the intention of improving the stability of the licensing market

Betting rights hunting the snark

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 21 2009

Recently, tournament organisers and other sport-related entities have started to speak about “betting rights” as if a new form of legal property had dawned

European court ruling on copyright royalties

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Sweden
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  • January 23 2009

The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has issued an important judgment in December 2008 on excessive and discriminatory pricing issues in respect of copyright royalties by a copyright collection society STIM, on a reference from the Swedish courts under Article 234 EC on a claim by the commercial broadcasters Kanal 5 Limited and TV4 AB

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

Licensing without hiccups

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 30 2009

Christmas is fast approaching and operators should ensure that any Temporary Event Notices required for Christmas functions (either additional hours or activities) are submitted in good time and certainly no later than 10 clear working days before the function, which is the statutory deadline

Supreme Court to revisit rules concerning international exhaustion of copyright

  • Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 22 2010

Signaling that it intends to wade into waters last visited in Quality King Distributors, Inc. v. L’Anza Research Int’l, Inc., 523 U.S. 135 (1998), the Supreme Court this week agreed to review Omega v. Costco Wholesale Corp

Hey Papi! Big Pimpin' thinks you ain’t no playa when it comes to his 4040 mark

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 26 2010

As many of you baseball fans surely know, "4040" is a term reserved for ballplayers who have hit 40 home runs and stolen 40 bases in a single season

Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., et al.

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 18 2009

Court upholds magistrate’s order granting motion to compel production of communications between in-house counsel, client, and third party where defendant failed to establish that communications were made to third party in furtherance of common legal interest

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