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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

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

Communications and media e-bulletin - a round-up of developments

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • July 6 2012

In the face of decreasing voice revenues and increasing data demands and the need to roll-out 4G networks, mobile operators in Europe are looking at new ways of sharing networks and infrastructure

Round up of key developments

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • European Union
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  • July 19 2011

On 4 March, the European Commission announced it would close its antitrust investigation into possible restrictive business agreements by Hollywood film studios

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

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

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
  • -
  • 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