Posts under ‘infringement’

We have written previously on copyright holders’ efforts to effect the removal of sites linking to or hosting infringing content, and also on new measures being introduced by the Digital Economy Act, which provide for injunctive relief where a website “has been, is being or is likely to be used for or in connection with [...]

The internet revolutionised the way people could discover and share information, but as technology has developed, the volume of information which can be shared online, and the variety of its application have broadened significantly.  When the bandwidth available to typical internet users was sufficient, there was an explosion in online sharing of music through services [...]

The debate over file sharing is increasingly being presented as a stand off between property rights and civic rights, as the new opinion from the Advocate General, adviser to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), now demonstrates. All the while countries rush ahead with innovative measures to clampdown on infringement. Getting a [...]

Earlier in the week I discussed the decision in Meltwater. The decision is under appeal.  In the meantime, it is difficult to manage the legal risks when linking given the complex copyright law concepts involved in assessing whether a particular link is an “Intellectual creation” and original, and whether the destination website’s terms of use [...]

Linking is fundamental to the World Wide Web. It ties together the rich tapestry of globally accessible information we now enjoy by enabling users to more easily discover, experience and share content online. Legal implications of linking The law often has to reconcile technological innovations with various legal questions to find a way to fit [...]

The Premier League is the world’s most watched and most lucrative football league in terms of revenue.  So, revenue from television rights is vitally important to it. The Football Association Premier League ltd. (FAPL) sells its rights in the broadcast of matches individually on a territory by territory basis. In order to access the service [...]

The candid belief that Google is just a messenger bringing good and bad content to surfers and concerned only with one criteria, ‘relevance’, is dissipating.It was once the copyright owner’s duty, not Google’s, to chase the pirates. But the tides are changing in favour of copyright owners as Google volunteers to share responsibility for enforcement. [...]

Copyright is a hot topic at the moment, especially following the PM’s announcement that UK copyright law is to be reviewed with a view to potentially incorporating fair use provisions along similar lines to those in place in the US.  This blog has covered copyright online a number of times before, in the context of [...]

One aspect of online business that is particularly difficult to grapple with is copyright, be it, use of content from other sites, or copyright relating to photographs and images or other issues.  The misinformation that surrounds copyright is therefore unsurprising. Often newcomers to the internet freely copy and paste from other websites, whether there is [...]

Recently, nearly a year after the latest French anti-piracy law reached the statute books, the French government agency HADOPI began to see the first batch of notices sent out to ISPs identifying IP addresses allegedly caught using peer to peer networks to share copyright content. The controversial legislation sets out a three strikes approach to [...]