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"Communication to the public" includes "live" streaming of TV content to licensed recipients

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • March 11 2013

The CJEU has held that TVCatchup's live streaming of UK free-to-view terrestrial television broadcasts infringes authors' rights to control

Football Dataco fails to qualify - CJEU rules against subsistence of database copyright in the contents of fixture lists

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 14 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that database copyright is available only in relation to the structure of the database and not as a form of protection for its contents, and then only where there is creative originality in the selection and arrangement of the database

Record companies win first round v The Pirate Bay in the UK but pirates remain at large

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 24 2012

In a decision handed down by Mr Justice Arnold on 20 February 2012, the High Court finds that UK users of The Pirate Bay website are liable for copyright infringement for communicating copyrighted sound recordings to the public and that the operators of The Pirate Bay authorise infringements of copyright by its users and are jointly liable for these copyright infringements (Dramatico Entertainment Limited & others v British Sky Broadcasting Limited & others 2012 EWHC 268 (Ch

A judgment of two halves: full time in FAPL v QC Leisure

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 16 2012

The High Court finds that the transmission in a pub of broadcasts containing protected works without the permission of the author is an infringement of UK copyright law, but holds that the publican defendants have a valid defence in relation to certain of the protected works (Football Association Premier League Ltd & others v QC Leisure & others 2012 EWHC 108

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

Nintendo v Playables - copyright infringement by security circumvention devices

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 11 2010

The High Court has given summary judgment in a case concerning copyright infringement by the sale of devices for playing pirated copies of computer games

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