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Who owns graffiti works?

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 21 2013

The English press has recently reported that a work by the famous graffiti artist Banksy has been removed from the wall of a London street and is now

Spanish Competition Commission imposes a fine on the Spanish collecting society for audiovisual producers for demanding abusive fees

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Spain
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  • May 31 2012

On 2 March 2012, the Spanish Competition Commission (CNC) imposed a fine of 478,515 on the Spanish collecting society for producers (Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales or Egeda) for abusing its dominant position in the market of granting licences and for the remuneration to audiovisual producers by hotel facilities for public announcement activities carried out in hotel rooms

Restaurants and bars beware: failure to obtain a license to play a copyrighted music may expose you to substantial damages

  • Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Law Corporation
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  • USA
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  • March 16 2012

Restaurants, bars, night clubs and similar establishments who play copyrighted music or have live performers play the compositions from copyrighted music should pay particular attention to a recent Ninth Circuit case, where the court awarded plaintiffs statutory damages as well as substantial attorney’s fees

UK court strikes out bans on parallel trade in Premier League case

  • McGuireWoods LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • February 29 2012

On Feb. 3, 2012, a UK court applied a 2011 judgment of the ECJ concerning restrictions on cross-border sales in the EU

Satellite decoder case runs into extra time - Football Association Premier League Ltd. & others v QC Leisure & others 2012 EWHC 108 (CH)

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 10 2012

On 3 February, the High Court issued its judgment in the long-running, and closely followed, copyright infringement action by the English Football Association Premier League (FAPL) against importers of foreign satellite decoders and a representative sample of UK publicans

Advocate General considers territorial broadcasting restrictions incompatible with European law

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • March 31 2011

On 3 February 2011, Advocate General Kokott delivered her Opinion on a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerning the legality of the use of satellite decoders purchased outside the United Kingdom to show Premier League football matches in public houses in the United Kingdom

Licence fees for music in fitness classes to be redetermined

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • December 20 2010

The maximum licence fees to be paid for using music in fitness classes is still unresolved

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