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Searching for photos? Go ahead, Google those thumbnails

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Germany
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  • June 30 2010

The German Federal Supreme Court has decided that Google is not liable for unlawful copyright infringement for displaying thumbnail preview images of the artist's photographs in its search engine

Online infringement of copyright cost sharing: UK government decision

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 4 2010

The Digital Economy Act (DEA) created an anti-piracy notification scheme allowing copyright holders to report suspected infringers to their Internet Service Providers (ISPs

Second Circuit revives copyright infringement suit against non-resident for uploading copyrighted material online

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • USA
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  • June 30 2011

Employing the standard set out by the New York Court of Appeals in internet copyright infringement cases, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has revived a copyright infringement suit brought by a New York resident against a non-resident based upon defendant’s alleged uploading of copyrighted materials onto the internet

Rights holders and internet service providers discuss combating file-sharing

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • July 5 2011

The European Commission’s Stakeholders’ Dialogue on illegal uploading, downloading, and file-sharing was concluded with the publication of a Synthesis Report

The legality of ordering ISPs to install filtering and blocking systems to protect IP rights

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Belgium, European Union
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  • May 31 2011

In Scarlet Extended SA v Société Belge des Auteurs Compositeurs et Editeurs C-7010, the Advocate General (AG) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has given his opinion on whether it is lawful for a national court to impose an order on an internet service provider (ISP) to make in impossible for its customers to send or receive, by means of peer-to-peer software, particular music files

A Digital Copyright Exchange in the United Kingdom

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 12 2012

The United Kingdom’s Department of Business, Innovation, and Skills (BIS) has honoured its early commitment to one of the more controversial ideas put forward by Professor Hargreaves in his May 2011 Review of Intellectual Property and Growth by announcing the launch of a feasibility study on developing a Digital Copyright Exchange (DCE) in the United Kingdom

“Hot news” cannot be enjoined under misappropriation claim

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 31 2011

In a case that attracted significant amici attention, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, invoking the copyright law principal of preemption, vacated an injunction against an internet news service that was based on a tort claim of misappropriation

How deep is the safe harbor?

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • USA
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  • May 30 2012

In a case that has now been in litigation for more than five years, and in an appeal that drew close to a hundred amici briefs, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has explained its position on the contours of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DCMA's) safe harbor provision that limits the liability of online service providers who permit users to post content on their websites

Statutory provision on royalty judges violates appointments clause

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 30 2012

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the position of Copyright Royalty Judges (CRJs) violates the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, but remedied the violation by invalidating and severing restrictions on the Librarian of Congress’s ability to remove the CRJs

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