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Washington v. National Football League

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 5 2012

District court grants NFL’s motion to dismiss class action filed by former football players alleging that, by not allowing the players the rights to game films and images from the games in which they played, the NFL is monopolizing the market for former players’ likenesses, in violation of antitrust laws

The Premier League and the pub landlady

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • 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

A case of preemption

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 25 2012

A ruling from the U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan last week decided an issue of first impression, and held that broadcasters’ claims of state law unfair competition were preempted by the United States Copyright Act

Microsoft allowed access to Datel Xbox discovery

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 25 2011

Microsoft Corp. has recently won a bid to force Datel Holdings Ltd. to produce documents and sample products in an action involving Datel's Xbox 360 accessories

Round up of key developments

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • July 19 2011

On 4 March, the European Commission announced it would close its antitrust investigation into possible restrictive business agreements by Hollywood film studios

MurphyPremier League changes European media rights landscape

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 28 2011

This case, about the ability of British pubs to screen live Premier League football broadcast from other EU countries, questions the way content has been distributed in Europe

Make mine a Murphy's, or maybe not

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 5 2012

On 24 February 2012, Karen Murphy finally had her criminal conviction for using foreign decoders to show football in her Portsmouth pub quashed

General counsel update: 31 May 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 31 2012

This is the twenty-ninth in our series of General Counsel Updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

Thayil v. Fox Broadcasting

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 8 2012

District court dismisses plaintiff’s complaint accusing producers of American Idol and other reality competition shows of stealing his ideas and infringing his copyrights, holding that the allegedly stolen elements were not copyrightable, and that plaintiff’s conclusory allegations did not suffice to state a claim

Premier League copyright infringed but High Court calls time on anti-competitive contracts

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 8 2012

Following the recent landmark decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the UK High Court has ruled that using decoder cards imported from other Member States to show live Premier League football matches in UK pubs constitutes a “communication to the public” and can give rise to copyright infringement of the “works” contained in those broadcasts

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