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Star Wars Episode III - English Supreme Court decision: a new hope for the enforcement of non-EU copyrights, or a phantom menace for UK-domiciled entities?

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 13 2011

The English Supreme Court has ruled that the English Courts are able to hear claims for infringement of US copyright brought against UK-domiciled defendants and should do so

The young ones get older: copyright in sound recordings extended by 20 years

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • September 21 2011

The EU Council has voted to extend the copyright on sound recordings from 50 to 70 years

Premier League copyright infringed but High Court calls time on anti-competitive contracts

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 8 2012

Following the recent landmark decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the UK High Court has ruled that using decoder cards imported from other Member States to show live Premier League football matches in UK pubs constitutes a “communication to the public” and can give rise to copyright infringement of the “works” contained in those broadcasts

High Court confirms landmark CJEU ruling on Premier League copyrights, overturns Portsmouth landlady’s criminal convictions

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 28 2012

The High Court has confirmed the recent landmark decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and allowed the appeal of Karen Murphy, the Portsmouth landlady who was convicted of two offences under section 297(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA), of fraudulently receiving Premier League broadcasts by using a Greek decoder card, to show live football matches in her pub

Advocate General issues opinion in Football Dataco v Sportradar

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 21 2012

In an important development earlier today, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has said that where a website operator displays material on its website that infringes the sui generis database right of a third party, that operator infringes the third party’s rights both in the country in which the server hosting the website is based and in the countries in which the users accessing that information are based

Rights in data Football Dataco case goes to UK Court of Appeal

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 5 2013

The long-running Football Dataco case, relating to rights in data and infringement on the internet, has now reached the UK Court of Appeal. The

Joy to the classical world music industry pierces the corporate veil

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 29 2012

Earlier this month, judgment in Naxos Rights International Ltd v Project Management (Borders) Ltd and Salmon 2012 CSOH 158 was handed down by the Scottish courts

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