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  • Global Awards 2013: shortlists

    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

  • gTLD seminar to be held in Brussels on June 22

    May 31, 2012

    Managing IP is sponsoring a seminar on new gTLDs, to be held in Brussels on June 22, immediately before the Icann meeting in Prague

  • Dot-eu domain names likely to be revoked

    May 03, 2012

    The Advocate General in the EU has said that Gevers and other firms should not have been able to register .eu domains for clients, as they do not qualify as licensees

  • Gevers in .eu case at Court of Justice

    March 29, 2012

    Last week saw a hearing at the Court of Justice of the EU over two questions concerning the domain .eu. The case could affect the rights of trade mark attorneys across Europe

  • ACTA battle fought out on Twitter

    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

  • When will the CJEU rule on ACTA?

    February 27, 2012

    EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht last week said that the Court of Justice of the EU will be asked to rule on the legitimacy of ACTA. But how soon can an opinion be expected?

  • Managing IP Global Awards 2012 – shortlists revealed

    January 27, 2012

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

  • What the Sabam decision means for rights owners

    November 24, 2011

    Today's decision by the Court of Justice will make it harder for rights owners to force ISPs to help them fight illegal downloading

  • Sabam loses ISP blocking case

    November 24, 2011

    Courts in EU member states cannot issue wide-ranging orders forcing ISPs to block users’ access to copyright-infringing material, Europe’s highest court ruled today

  • Managing IP’s guide to the Sabam v Scarlet dispute

    November 23, 2011

    Tomorrow, Europe’s highest court will hand down an important ruling clarifying whether rights owners can ask courts to force ISPs to prevent users from accessing copyright-infringing material. Managing IP explains more

  • Google fails to reassure content creators

    June 09, 2011

    Music, film and book companies often disagree about how to deal with copyright problems, but at the World Copyright Summit this week they were all able to agree on one thing: they don’t like Google

  • Commission unveils anti-counterfeiting strategy

    May 24, 2011

    The European Commission today set out a proposed regulation to strengthen the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy by granting various tasks to OHIM

  • Belgian court upholds Google headline ban

    May 11, 2011

    Google has been told it infringes publishers’ copyright by reproducing their headlines, in a decision by the Belgian Court of Appeal

  • Web filtering can infringe rights – Advocate General

    April 15, 2011

    The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU has suggested that requiring internet service providers to filter content would infringe fundamental rights

  • Government talks likely to delay gTLDs

    March 03, 2011

    While positive noises were made by the Icann Board and government representatives about this week's Brussels consultations, the culture clash and potential for more delay to new gTLDs was obvious

  • Icann Board reveals further rights protection tweaks

    March 02, 2011

    The Icann Board made some changes to rights protections in new gTLDs on the third day of tense consultations with the Governmental Advisory Committee in Brussels

  • Icann in showdown with government reps

    January 24, 2011

    The date has been set for a key meeting between Icann’s Board and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), but will it lead to further delays in the new gTLD Applicant Guidebook?

  • Icann advice to Board partly revealed

    August 19, 2010

    Icann has released the briefing notes given to the Board ahead of the June meeting in Brussels

  • Icann Chair issues ultimatum to government body

    June 29, 2010

    The Icann Chair gave the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) an ultimatum on morality in new gTLDs, at a press conference last week

  • Icann decisions move .xxx and new gTLDs closer

    June 28, 2010

    The Icann Board last week brought the .xxx domain closer, approved four Chinese-language internationalised domains and raised the possibility of approving the new gTLD programme in December

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