Latest Managing Copyright News

• This week’s IP quiz – February 6-10

  Test your knowledge of the week’s IP news with our quick, five-question quiz. Answers next week

• How the EU could make it easier to enforce IP rights

  The European Commission has outlined how it might reform its enforcement directive to make it easier for IP owners to take action against infringers

• Hong Kong tries to stay ahead of the infringers

  The Hong Kong agency in charge of combating IP crime is to launch a new Electronic Crime Investigation Centre which it says will close the technological gap between infringers and enforcement officers

• ICE targets Super Bowl fakes

  If you managed to score tickets to Sunday’s Super Bowl for less than the average resale price of about $3,500, you might want to check they’re not fakes before making the trip to Indianapolis

• Judge says Premier League can enforce copyright

  The FA Premier League can enforce its rights against UK pubs using feeds from overseas broadcasters – but despite nearly five years of litigation it’s still not clear what rights it has

• Quiz of the week – January 30 to February 3

  Test your knowledge of the week’s IP news in Managing IP’s new weekly quiz

• Managing IP North America Awards 2012 – shortlists revealed

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

• Optus wins TV copyright battle

  The Federal Court’s controversial decision in favour of Optus has created uncertainty over the future of mobile rights in Australia

Canada

• Tariffs on teacher copies debated in Supreme Court

  To what extent teachers' textbook copying is "fair dealing" was debated before the Supreme Court of Canada on Wednesday, one of three copyright-related cases the High Court is considering this week.

• Soundtrack royalties under scrutiny

  In the last of five copyright cases heard this week by the Supreme Court of Canada, justices weighed arguments as to whether broadcasters and cinema owners must pay a separate tariff for the performance of soundtracks

• Canada Supreme Court in copyright spree

  Canada’s Supreme Court is hearing five cases this week, in a historic burst of activity that could fundamentally reshape copyright protection in the country

• Case report: Supreme Court considers digital copyright cases

  The Supreme Court of Canada yesterday heard the first day of oral arguments in two cases centred on whether copyright infringement is triggered through downloading of digital media

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Broadcasting

• Analysis: Premier League ruling a relief for digital industry

  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

• Analysis: landlords may not benefit from Premier League case

  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

• Premier League loses right to territorial licences

  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

• Strictly come formatting: The Managing IP guide to protecting TV formats

  The BBC is taking legal action in Italy to prevent a rival version of its hit show Strictly Come Dancing from being shown by Silvio Berlusconi’s television network Mediaset

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Compilations

• Companies can be authors, says Singapore court

  A Singapore court has ruled that copyright can be owned by companies as well as individuals, in a dispute between two horse racing publications

• Court rules fixture lists protected by copyright

  Lists of UK football fixtures can be protected as databases under copyright law, Mr Justice Floyd ruled in the England and Wales High Court last week

• Courts get tough on copyright compilers

  A decision by a court in Australia last week could make it harder for compilers of factual information to protect their work under copyright law

• Australia rethinks rules on copyright for compilers

  Australia's highest court recently narrowed the scope of copyright protection for compilations and databases

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