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De-mining the DMCA’s safe harbor: UMG v Veoh

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2013

As well as being home to the world's largest film and music companies, the US is the intellectual, entrepreneurial and technical leader of the

Court finds improper joinder of defendants in same BitTorrent swarm

  • Holland & Knight LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 19 2013

Over the past several years, content providers, particularly in the adult film industry, have filed numerous suits against users who have copied

CIPPIC granted adjournment in the 2012 Voltage Pictures v Does P2P file sharing case

  • anticIPate Law
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  • Canada
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  • January 18 2013

Voltage Pictures' motion against Teksavvy was heard on January 14th, 2013, at Federal Court in Toronto. In the motion, Voltage had asked that

Facebook’s privacy hoax

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 4 2012

Many Facebook users will have seen various legalistic posts popping up on their homepage over the last week

When copyrights and patents collide

  • Olivares & Cía
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  • Mexico
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  • November 21 2012

Let us begin with a few definitions

Football fixtures finally freed from fees

  • Olswang LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 20 2012

On Monday 12 November 2012, the long running claim brought by the English and Scottish professional football leagues ("the Leagues"), their licensing agent, Football DataCo ("FDC"), and its sub-contractor PA Sport ("the Claimants") was brought to an end

Hosting provider found liable for damages caused by hosted website

  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
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  • Netherlands
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  • October 30 2012

For the first time a hosting and internet service provider is held liable for damages in an anti-piracy case in the Netherlands (District Court of The Hague (the "Court"), 24 October 2012, BREIN v XSN

Caveat for copyright holders: don’t sit on your claims

  • Fredrikson & Byron PA
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 24 2012

Copyright owners face many challenges in this digital age, not the least of which is the ease with which creative works like music and movies are illegally distributed over the internet

The final score on database rights

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 23 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has given a ruling on questions of database right infringement referred to it by the Court of Appeal

Doing business in Canada

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 17 2012

Unlike the United States, Canada was not created by a unilateral declaration of independence from the colonial occupation of England