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February 25, 2013
Managing IP’s Global Awards Dinner recognising outstanding work in IP in the past year takes place in London on April 17. Winners will be selected from the following shortlists
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January 17, 2013
In December Germany’s Federal Court of Justice ruled in a dispute over music sampling. Its decision has implications for IP owners and users in the film, music and publishing industry. Fabian Niemann and Lea Mackert explain why
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October 18, 2012
Football Dataco, the commercial entity that exploits rights associated with English football matches, has won an important decision in its latest battle in the European courts
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July 03, 2012
Customers of software resellers such as UsedSoft who buy an updated user licence may download the software from the copyright owner’s website, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled today
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June 11, 2012
The commentaries on firms in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are now live on MIPHandbook.com, along with all the rankings from Managing IP's annual survey
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April 27, 2012
Prototype shoes, banned songs and poor grammar: have you been following the news in IP this week?
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April 25, 2012
A court in Germany has become the first to rule that YouTube must use filtering technology to check for copyright infringement, in this case for repeated uploads
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April 05, 2012
Test your knowledge of this week’s IP developments. All the answers can be found in items on managingip.com published in the past five days
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March 28, 2012
IP owners are mistaken if they imagine yesterday’s decision by MEPs not to refer questions about ACTA to the EU’s top court reflected a softening in their position
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March 15, 2012
Hogan Lovells won the inaugural global IP firm of the year award at tonight’s Managing IP Awards Dinner in London
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January 27, 2012
Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced
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January 05, 2012
As the clock counted down to 2012, the estates of artists, creators, authors and composers prepared to see their incomes wane as copyright works slip out of protection
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September 29, 2011
The original advocate of reforming collecting societies explains why the system is such a mess, but the European Commission can do little about it
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September 27, 2011
Members of collecting societies across Europe are heading to Luxembourg this week to tell Europe’s General Court why they should not be forced to offer cross-border services for collecting and distributing royalties for music
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March 23, 2011
In Europe, Google is likely to adopt an opt-in approach to digitisation, as indicated in its deal with French publisher Hachette Livre last year
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March 15, 2011
Companies must pay fair compensation in at least one member state when selling blank disks in the EU, according the Court of Justice’s Advocate General
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October 01, 2010
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September 08, 2010
The decision to force YouTube to compensate IP owners whose work appears on the site without their permission could create big problems for the company in Germany, lawyers say