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Website copyright infringement: UK Supreme Court asks ECJ to confirm lawfulness of accessing copyright materials through internet browsers

  • White & Black Legal LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • May 5 2013

The UK Supreme Court ("UKSC"), in the case of Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v The Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd & Ors 2013 UKSC 18

Question on web browsing and copyright infringement referred to CJEU

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Belarus, United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2013

On 17 April 2013, the Supreme Court of England and Wales provisionally held in Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v The Newspaper Licensing

UK Supreme Court clarifies meltwater decision for internet users

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • May 1 2013

On the 17th April 2013, the UK Supreme Court decided that internet users do not need permission to browse and view copyrighted material via relevant

English Court of Appeal's judgment in Football Dataco v. Sportradar has implications for claims against Pinterest, Tumblr and other social media sites, but European Court will have final say

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

In its judgment of 6 February 2013, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales confirmed what many had predicted and many more had feared: that "the

Case C-40308 FA Premier League v QC Leisure and Case C-42908 Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services Limited

  • RPC
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 7 2011

The ECJ judgment has been widely reported by the scoreline ‘Pub Landlady 2 FAPL 0’

Case report - Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v The Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd and others 2013 UKSC 18, 17 April 2013

  • Clarkslegal LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 1 2013

The Supreme Court has recently considered whether the mere act of viewing copyright material on the internet could amount to infringement of

Harry Potter v Willy the Wizard

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 30 2010

In Paul Gregory Allen (acting as trustee of Adrian Jacobs (deceased)) v Bloomsbury Publishing plc 2010 EWHC 2560 (Ch) Mr Justice Kitchin denied a summary judgment application against claims that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire infringed the copyright in Willy the Wizard

Newzbin 2 - copyright holders have no proprietary claim to the proceeds of copyright infringement

  • White & Black Legal LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 6 2013

In a case brought by various film studios against the owners of a website which infringed their copyright works, the High Court has held that a

Court of Appeal confirms that copyright can subsist in headlines and that receipt of article extracts and use of hyperlinks can infringe

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 2 2011

The Court of Appeal has dismissed the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA)'s appeal against the decision of Mrs Justice Proudman in the High Court and the PRCA's claims that its use of a media monitoring organisation service (Meltwater News) should not require separate licensing from the newspaper copyright collecting society, the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) (NLA v Meltwater and PRCA 2011 EWCA Civ 890

PPL, PRS and playing music in public

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 6 2010

It became apparent last year that PRS for Music was increasing its monitoring of music played in the workplace and in other premises, to check whether such businesses hold the appropriate licences