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iPhone jailbreaking exempted from DMCA prohibitions

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 30 2010

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) at 17 U.S.C. 1201(a) prohibits the circumvention of technological protection measures used by copyright owners to prevent copying

Impact of the IP Enforcement Directive : EPhone, TeliaSonera and Com Hem

  • Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå AB
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  • Sweden
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  • October 20 2010

Since the EU IP Enforcement Directive (200448EC) was implemented into Swedish law in 2009, three cases have dealt with the most central provision: the potential right for IP rights holders to obtain information regarding the origin and distribution networks of infringing goods and services

Brand protection is an app-solute must

  • Haynes and Boone LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2011

The ubiquity of mobile and Internet applications, or apps, is astounding

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. British Telecommunications plc

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 3 2011

Court issues order directing British Telecom, an internet service provider, to prevent access to Newzbin.com, a website that had been found by the court in a previous decision to be infringing on plaintiffs’ copyrights by distributing commercial content without their permission

Twentieth Century Fox v BT - internet service provider ordered to block copyright infringing website

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 1 2011

Owners of intellectual property rights have long claimed that internet service providers (ISPs) ought to help in cracking down on piracy on the internet

Library of Congress offers six exemptions to Copyright Act

  • Calfee Halter & Griswold LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 13 2010

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) generally forbids the circumvention of technological measures designed to prevent the piracy of copyrighted works, such as the use of a black box in order to gain access to cable signals

The power of the CRTC to regulate ISPs under the Broadcasting Act

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 25 2011

On March 24, the Supreme Court of Canada granted leave to appeal with respect to three decisions of the Federal Court of Appeal

High Court orders BT to block its customers from accessing an unlawful file sharing site

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 10 2011

In the first decision of its kind in the UK, the High Court has held that an Internet Service Provider ("ISP"), in this case BT, must block its customers from accessing an unlawful file sharing site (www.newzbin.com) on the basis that, under s97A Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 ("CDPA"), BT had "actual knowledge" of its customers using its service to infringe copyright (in this case the copyright in films and television programmes owned by certain well-known studios

A round-up of developments

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 12 2011

The High Court has upheld an application by a consortium of movie studios forcing BT, as an Internet Service Provider, to block its customers from accessing an unlawful file sharing site on the basis that BT had actual knowledge of its customers using the service to infringe copyright

Italian telecoms and media regulator proposes to adminster notice-and-takedown procedures and update on Italian case law

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • November 28 2011

On 6 July 2011 the Italian Communication Regulatory Authority, AGCOM, approved a draft of a new regulation (Res. no. 39811, the "Regulation") regarding the protection of copyright within electronic networks

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