Competition Law strengthening the failure of the new publishers’ rights: is...
Article 15 and article 17 created one of the biggest controversies of the DSM Directive, the goal of these two articles being to enable...
Online Harms: UK Government publishes response to consultation on proposals for...
The UK Government today published its initial response to the Online Harms consultation, in the first substantive update since the publication of the White...
UK Government “has no plans” to implement the Copyright Directive
Since its passing last year, there has been speculation about whether the UK would implement the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market....
Should subscriptions to online versions of newspapers, journals and periodicals be...
On 24Â December 2019 the Tax Chamber of the Upper Tribunal in the case of News Corp UK & Ireland Ltd v HMRC found that...
Does the principle of exhaustion apply to digital media? The CJEU...
On 19 December 2019 Court of Justice of the European Union made a landmark ruling in Tom Kabinet regarding the exhaustion of copyright in...
Czech Supreme Court finds that statements that create a wrongful impression...
Factual background The Claimant in this case was a famous Czech actor and theatre producer, whose name was used in an article, published by the...
Australia’s media laws: a portrait of a changing landscape
2019 has been an unprecedented year of review and proposed reform of the Australian media law landscape. Governments and regulators have recognised that the...
Supreme Court hands down major defamation decision in Lachaux case
The Supreme Court Justices unanimously rejected the appeal of The Independent, i, and the Evening Standard that the High Court and Court of Appeal...
The EU Copyright Directive: Article 19 Transparency Obligations
As reported here, the European Parliament recently approved the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive). The DSM Directive has...
