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A new judgment on websites posting links that facilitate downloads

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Spain
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  • May 8 2012

A Judgment issued by the Regional Court of Vizcaya on September 27th, 2011 has admitted the appeal filed against the Judgment issued by the Criminal Court in Baracaldo (Vizcaya) on February 11th, 2011 that we discussed in our last issue

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

Director compensated for the non-authorised inclusion of images of his documentary in a TV report

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Spain
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  • February 9 2012

The Commercial Court num. 6 of Madrid issued a judgment whereby a Spanish national TV channel and a TV production company owned by the latter, were sentenced to pay 13,370 to a German director for infringement of his intellectual property rights

The Spanish criminal courts will continue considering that webs posting links that facilitate file downloads do not infringe the Criminal Code

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • Spain
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  • November 30 2011

The Judgement issued by the Criminal Court No. 1 in Baracaldo is based on the strengthen interpretation of our criminal courts to avoid criminal conviction of the defendants that on their websites provide links to files protected by copyright law

Is YouTube only a service provider of data storage?

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • Spain
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  • November 30 2011

The decision object of this article came to settle a demand filed by Telecinco against Youtube, on the understanding that the dissemination through the website of the defendant of various audiovisual works owned by the plaintiff, implies a violation of their intellectual property rights

Chesterton's works are protected in Spain until 2016 or 80 years after his death

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Spain
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  • November 10 2011

On 14 July 2011, the Commercial Court nº 12 of Madrid issued a judgment clarifying the term of protection of exploitation rights for works created by deceased authors

Spanish TV channel held liable for plagiarising TV format

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Spain
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  • September 6 2011

On 14 June 2011, the Commercial Court Nº 12 of Madrid sentenced Spanish TV channel Telecinco to pay 60,000 to the state-owned broadcasting company RTVE on the grounds that the TV programme "España pregunta, Belén responde" ("Spain asks, Belén answers") is a copy of the well-known TV format "Tengo una pregunta para usted" ("I have a question for you"), of which RTVE is the exclusive licensee in Spain

When is a work "original" under the Copyright Act?

  • Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados
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  • Spain
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  • August 24 2011

The Copyright Act protects human creations only when these are “original” that is, when they meet the requirement of originality

Precautionary measure adopted prohibiting broadcaster from using a particular television programme format

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Spain
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  • July 4 2011

Upon the request of Corporación Radiotelevisión Española, the Commercial Court Nº 12 of Madrid issued an injunction against Telecinco which prohibited the broadcast of any television programme with a similar format to the well-known programme "Tengo una pregunta para usted" (I have a question for you), which is owned exclusively by Corporación Radiotelevisión Española

Rulings against the applicability of the copyright levies in Spain

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Spain
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  • June 21 2011

After the judgment issued by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on 21 October 2010 declaring that the indiscriminate application of the copyright levies in Spain is contrary to EU law, a number of Spanish courts are already following the judgment without waiting for the reforms that the Spanish Government will introduce to align the country's regulations on copyright levies with EU law

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