tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post8126962981406822020..comments2024-03-29T10:54:23.099+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Good news for Sir Cliff and eBayVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-27796729918168443202008-07-18T13:07:00.000+01:002008-07-18T13:07:00.000+01:00While we are on the subject of the EU and copyrigh...While we are on the subject of the EU and copyright protection, you may be interested to read the decision in Murphy v. Media Protection Services:<BR/><BR/>(http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2008/1666.html)<BR/><BR/>"We ... voice our unease about the bringing of a prosecution under s. 297(1) in circumstances where the establishment of an essential element in the offence, namely "intent to avoid payment of any charge applicable to the reception of the programme", depends upon the compatibility with EC law of an export ban imposed in a licence agreement between two companies who are legally strangers to the purchaser and user of the decoder card in question who is the defendant to the criminal charge."<BR/><BR/>EdTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-18001176125891717112008-07-16T21:41:00.000+01:002008-07-16T21:41:00.000+01:00It is true that the whole situation is quite messy...It is true that the whole situation is quite messy. On the plus side, this ruling has the benefit of not shifting the burden of policing trademarks etc on platforms but rather more fittingly on the trademark owners. But this still does not address the bigger problem of how do you in the first place prevent fakes from being sold online.CyberPandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08911634703098206243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-78754935650028415062008-07-16T18:50:00.000+01:002008-07-16T18:50:00.000+01:00It's been a busy copyright day for the Commission ...It's been a busy copyright day for the Commission - it's also been announced that, for competition law reasons, 24 collecting societies must change the way they grant (or more precisely: not grant) Pan-European licenses for cable, satellite and internet uses. <BR/><BR/>See: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/1165&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en<BR/><BR/>AttilaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com