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TMT past, present and future: UKEU review of 2012 and preview of 2013

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 15 2013

No duty to monitor" extended to social networks: In February 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") ruled that the owner of an

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

A dramatic development but pirate still afloat

  • Lee & Thompson LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 30 2012

In the recent High Court decision in Dramatico Entertainment Limited v British Sky Broadcasting et al 2012 EWHC 268 (CH) (“Dramatico”) record companies achieved a major victory against the six largest internet service providers in the UK in their ongoing fight against online piracy and abuses of content

Simplified pirate website blocking orders

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 1 2013

Yesterday, the High Court made a court order requiring BSkyB, British Telecom, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, Telefonica and Virgin Media to block

Proportionality as a ground of judicial review

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 13 2011

At the end of last month, the Administrative Court delivered its judgment in a judicial review challenge brought by BT and TalkTalk to controversial provisions in the Digital Economy Act (DEA

Digital Economy Act update

  • Penningtons Solicitors LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 24 2011

In our March update, we reported to you that a judicial review of key sections of the Digital Economy Act ('the Act') was due to take place

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

BT ordered to block access to file-sharing website by UK high court

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 2 2011

In the first UK high court ruling of its kind, telecoms company BT has been given 14 days to block access to Newzbin2, an illegal file-sharing website

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

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • 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

A round-up of developments

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • 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

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