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May 09, 2012
Computer programs cannot be protected by copyright under the EU’s Software Directive, but could be eligible for protection under other European laws
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March 16, 2012
Test your knowledge of IP news with our five quick questions on the past week’s developments
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March 12, 2012
Dentists who want to play music to waiting patients to soothe their nerves and hotel owners who want to provide guests with access to music in their bedrooms will find out the IP implications of their hospitality on Thursday
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March 02, 2012
As the European Parliament hosted a workshop on ACTA yesterday, activists on both sides of the debate took to social media site Twitter to present their case
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February 27, 2012
On Thursday, the Court of Justice will rule in a dispute over the ownership of IP rights in football league fixture lists in a decision that should clarify the rules on database protection. Managing IP provides a preview
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February 21, 2012
More cases than ever were brought before Europe’s Court of Justice last year. Does that signal confidence of users or the over-complication of European law? Managing IP reports
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February 10, 2012
The European Commission has outlined how it might reform its enforcement directive to make it easier for IP owners to take action against infringers
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December 01, 2011
Copyright protection for a portrait photograph is not inferior to that enjoyed by any other work, the Court of Justice of the EU said today in a judgment arising from photos of the Austrian hostage Natasha K
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November 17, 2011
Sweden can require an ISP to reveal the name of a subscriber, despite having not implemented data retention law, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU said today
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November 16, 2011
The High Court in London is to ask Europe’s top court to clarify whether live internet streaming of free-to-air channels is lawful
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November 15, 2011
ISPs in Belgium are resisting calls from the country’s collecting society Sabam to pay a levy to compensate rights owners for making copyright material available online
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October 31, 2011
In an exclusive interview with Emma Barraclough, Eleanor Sharpston explains the role of advocates general at the EU’s Court of Justice, the barriers to creating an IP tribunal and why she admires the ingenuity of parallel traders
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October 04, 2011
Today’s EU judgment on football broadcasts declined to address licences in other media, in contrast with the Advocate General’s opinion in the case
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October 04, 2011
Publicans who raised a glass to celebrate today’s ruling from the Court of Justice on Premier League matches might find they choke on their drink by the time they reach paragraph 183
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October 04, 2011
The Court of Justice of the EU has ruled that the Premier League cannot partition national markets for its football broadcasts, giving greater detail on copyright than the Advocate General
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September 15, 2011
Two forthcoming Court of Justice judgments could remove protection for software by extending the exhaustion principle to services
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September 06, 2011
European countries should be free to give the rights to a film’s reproduction and broadcasting to its producers rather than directors, according to the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU
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August 30, 2011
After a month-long holiday, the Court of Justice of the EU has one big IP judgment scheduled in September and several others in the next few months
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July 06, 2011
A decision in a dispute between the film industry and the UK’s biggest internet service provider is on hold pending the Court of Justice of the EU’s judgment in L’Oréal v eBay
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May 14, 2011
Rights over designs in Europe look likely to be clarified thanks to an opinion issued by Advocate General Mengozzi yesterday