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The Premier League case: not the last case on internal market restrictions before the ECJ

By 7 May 2011 0

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 […]

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), […]