What the Sabam decision means for rights owners
24 November 2011
Emma Barraclough and Edward Conlon, London
Today's decision by the Court of Justice will make it harder for rights owners to force ISPs to help them fight illegal downloading
Music and film companies, and the collecting societies that help manage their rights, have increasingly looked to ISPs to do more to tackle piracy. This is largely because they have accepted that suing individual downloaders was bringing them little legal joy and plenty of bad press.
Following today's ruling, they will need to refine their tactics.
Cédric Manara, an academic at EDHEC Business School in Paris, told Managing IP he believed that collecting societies had anticipated they would lose the case and had already started to change their strategies.
They have...
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