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CJEU decision finds that requiring ISPs to filter content is illegal

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 28 2011

The case of Sabam v Tiscali in the Belgian courts in 2007 addressed whether the court should grant injunctive relief to SABAM (the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers) against the Internet Service Provider (“ISP”), Tiscali, imposing an obligation on the ISP to stop infringements of SABAM’s intellectual property by making it impossible for Tiscali’s users to use “peer-to-peer” (“P2P”) software to transmit infringing files containing musical compositions

Cops escape copyright liability but caught on database right in phone code list

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 30 2011

Forensic Telecommunications Services Ltd (“FTS”) brought claims against West Yorkshire Police (“WYP”) and Mr Hirst, a detective employed by WYP, for infringement of copyright and database right and misuse of confidential information concerning a table of address data, referred to as the “PM Abs” addresses

Can you copy software without infringement?

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 12 2011

The AG recommends that copying functionality without the code is unobjectionable

IP snapshot May 2011

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 23 2011

The High Court has passed down judgment in relation to a judicial review brought by two of the UK's largest Internet Service Providers, relating to the legality and proportionality of the Digital Economy Act

IP snapshot

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 19 2012

The CJEU has ruled on the questions referred to it following the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorney’s appeal against the refusal to allow its registration of “IP TRANSLATOR” in relation to Class 41 of the Nice Classification

SAS v WPLl: who dares, loses

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 4 2012

In brief, World Programming Ltd (WPL) was a competitor of SAS Institute Inc. (SAS Institute

IP snapshot

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 21 2012

The High Court has refused to grant a stay of proceedings for infringement of a Community Trade Mark under Article 104(1) of the CTM Regulation where there were parallel proceedings before OHIM

IP snapshot march 2012

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 3 2012

TRADE MARKS

Copyright Hub - the future of licensing and other reforms

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 9 2012

Richard Hooper’s “Phase 2” report on copyright licensing was published on 31 July 2012, recommending the creation of a not-for-profit industry led and funded “Copyright Hub” to facilitate copyright education and licensing, to be overseen by a new steering group

Copyright exceptions: major expansion to reflect Hargreaves recommendations

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 16 2013

The Government launched a consultation in December 2011 to canvass views on expanding the list of copyright exceptions or "permitted acts" under the