In the Premier League case, the Court of Justice of the EU (Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08) is asked to give a preliminary ruling on several questions asked by the UK High Court of Justice in relation to the marketing of decoder cards and the satellite transmission of football matches throughout the internal market. The facts […]
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The Premier League case: not the last case on internal market restrictions before the ECJ
By 7 May 2011 0
The nascent e-books market: another illicit fragmentation of the internal market?
By 7 May 2011 0
In the Premier League case now before the Court of Justice of the EU (Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08, see also ipdigit), the Advocate General (AG), in her opinion of 3 February 2011, has highlighted the problem of fragmentation of the internal market by referring to the burgeoning e-books market. According to the AG (§ 186), […]
Towards an ethical music downloading?
By 3 December 2010 9
In expressing your opinion about digital piracy (in reaction to my post of last week), many of you suggested that the copyright industries should find alternative and creative ways to distribute their content in order to better compete with end-user piracy. Here is a sample of your comments: “Companies should find an alternative like […]
Legal responses to online piracy
By 27 November 2010 35
Yesterday (November 26, 2010), the New York Times published two short articles concerning online piracy of digital goods. The first article (Swedish Court Upholds Convictions in File-Sharing Case) reports that an appeals court in Sweden upheld the copyright convictions of three men behind Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site that remains in operation despite attempts to […]
An ‘uncommon’ riddle
By 17 November 2010 1
Here is just a riddle, which I ask you to solve. What do the following stories have in common? Pfalz Castle, once a toll booth on the Rhine river (knate.blogspot.com) 1. During the Middle Ages, it became impossible to carry on commercial trade on the Rhine River because of the toll booths built by all sorts […]
Harry Potter is back on the copyright front. Do you want to prepare a survey of cases around the world?
By 14 October 2010 1
The IPKat, the famous IP blog founded by the veteran blogger Jeremy Philips, today reports about a case involving Willy the Wizard v. Harry Potter. As summarized by Jeremy, “it is alleged that JK Rowling infringed the copyright in Adrian Jacobs’ Willy the Wizard in the course of writing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” […]
“Party’s over for US music downloads”: what could cheer up the music industry?
By 27 September 2010 0
Today (27 Sept. 2010), the Financial Times, under the title “Party’s over for US music downloads”, reports that the online sale of music during the first half of 2010 is flat compared to the same period last year (in 2009, downloads were increasing at 13% a year, and in 2008, at 28% a year). The […]
What is the optimal copyright length?
By 17 September 2010 43
In April 2009, the EU parliament approved an extension of the copyright term for music recordings from 50 years to 70 years (see the official press release). This decision followed a hot debate between the music industry, which campaigned for this extension as it would allow it to extend the flow of revenues derived from music […]
The Google Book Settlement – The Challenge of Building a Digital Library that Benefits All
By 1 September 2010 0
Friday 12 February 2010 – From: 13:45 To: 17:45 On 12 February, the Centre for Innovation and Intellectual Property of the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels (FUSL – Académie Louvain) , jointly with the Institute for European Legal Studies (IEJE) of the University of Liege (ULg), will hold in Brussels a half-day conference entitled “The […]
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