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Jurisdiction in copyright infringement with the involvement of the internet –...
[postscript 4 February 2014: the Cour de Cassation held on 22 January 2014, following the ECJ’s lead.] I reported earlier on the AG’s Opinion in Pinckney. The ECJ held this morning. The questions were...
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Rolex v Blomqvist. ECJ confirms irrelevance of ‘focus and target’ or...
After its withholding of mere accessibility of a site as a jurisdictional trigger for copyright infringement in Pinckney, the ECJ has now accepted that the mere acquisition of a good by a person...
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Jurisdiction, intellectual property and the internet. Might CRUZ VILLALÓN AG...
Let me answer the question immediately: that is unlikely. It is however an interesting prospect and, who knows, might be a start. CRUZ VILLALÓN AG’s Opinion in Pez Hejduk, case C-441/13 (at the time of...
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Hejduk: Copyright infringement and jurisdiction. The ECJ entertains much less...
I have reviewed the AG’s opinion in Hejduk here. The AG’s Opinion was exciting for it cited, even if only in a specific (IP; more specifically copyright) context, the difficulty in identifying locus...
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For your second conflicts reading of the day I thought I should serve something more substantial. In A (an Austrian company) v M (a company located in Luxembourg) the Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster...
View ArticleGrand Production v GO4YU. Szpunar AG (not, due to suggested inadmissibility)...
Szpunar AG opined a few weeks back in C-423/21 Grand Production v GO4YU ea. The case involves a variety of issues related to streaming and VPNs, many of which concern telecoms law yet one is of...
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