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A European Premier League: final whistle blows on football rights at the CJEU

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 5 2011

The FAPL markets the television broadcasting rights for Premier League matches

E-book pricing: the clash between copyright and competition law

  • RPC
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • April 11 2011

The OFT and the European Commission have opened up an almost exam question issue of the rights of a copyright owner to control the use made of its copyright works which makes for an interesting heavyweight bout between copyright and competition laws

The Premier League and the pub landlady

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 6 2011

European Court finds that prohibitions on the sale and use of foreign decoder devices for viewing broadcasts of football matches are contrary to EU law, but holds that transmission in a pub of certain elements of such broadcasts requires prior authorisation under copyright law

MurphyPremier League changes European media rights landscape

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • November 28 2011

This case, about the ability of British pubs to screen live Premier League football broadcast from other EU countries, questions the way content has been distributed in Europe

Make mine a Murphy's, or maybe not

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • March 5 2012

On 24 February 2012, Karen Murphy finally had her criminal conviction for using foreign decoders to show football in her Portsmouth pub quashed

General counsel update: 31 May 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Argentina, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • May 31 2012

This is the twenty-ninth in our series of General Counsel Updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

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

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • 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

CMS quarterly communications update - July 2012

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Austria, Bulgaria, European Union, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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  • July 20 2012

Quarterly update summarising regulatory and legal developments from the last three months in the communications, media and satellite sectors in Europe

CMS quarterly communications update April 2012

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Austria, Bulgaria, European Union, Germany, Global, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2012

This edition includes contributions from the United Kingdom, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine

The Court of Justice rules that a prohibition on the sale and use of foreign TV decoder cards for viewing football matches is in breach of Article 101 TFEU

  • Stibbe
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • March 27 2012

FAPL runs the Premier League, the leading professional football league competition in England

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