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  • OHIM expands role

    March 23, 2012

    OHIM is no longer simply an IP office that grants Community trade marks and registered Community designs. Today EU member states agreed that it should take on a new role: overseeing the protection of IP rights across Europe

  • Managing IP Global Awards 2012 – shortlists revealed

    January 27, 2012

    Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced

  • Woolf’s works enter public domain

    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

  • Interview: Chris Johnstone of Music Choice

    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

  • Collecting societies make their case in Europe

    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

  • ICE stands by Spanish domain name seizure

    July 14, 2011

    The US government is asking a New York court to deny Spanish company Puerto 80’s petition for the release of domain names seized as part of a crackdown on online piracy

  • China Customs praised on World Anti-Counterfeiting Day

    June 13, 2011

    China’s Customs organisation was given a special award on June 8 as part of celebrations to mark World Anti-Counterfeiting Day

  • YouTube faces further battle in Spain

    September 28, 2010

    A Spanish court’s decision to dismiss a copyright suit against YouTube is far from the end of the case, according to a Spanish copyright lawyer

  • EU study to calculate cost of piracy

    June 14, 2010

    Getting credible data on the true cost of pirated goods was the main subject at the first meeting of the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy

  • Spanish courts continue to favour P2P sites

    May 18, 2010

    Two recent decisions by Spanish courts reinforce the view that peer-to-peer sites are not liable for indexing copyright-infringing content online

  • Spanish court rules P2P links are legal

    March 17, 2010

    Lawyers have criticised a court ruling that found in favour of a website that hosted peer-to-peer file sharing links

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