intellectual property

Posted in Court of Justice, duty of care, EU, intellectual property, ISP, safe harbours

European Safe Harbours and the Future Case Law
This year could be incredibly ground breaking for European safe harbours. Despite of many preliminary questions, it´s unlikely (still believe in TM issue) that all of them are going to be answered. Although i think they should be (not just because of my interest). So let´s sum up, what we have at the “porch” of
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Posted in civil substantive law, Court of Justice, EU, intellectual property, ISP, safe harbours, trade marks

Maduro´s neutrality condition critisism
As i´ve pointed out last week, i never got the neutrality condition proposed by GA Maduro. As much as our opinions coinceded on the trademark issue, i couldn´t help to disagree with his reasonig on the hosting exemption. General Advocate stated that hosting exemption does not apply to AdWords, because of not meeting essential neutrality
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Posted in Court of Justice, DRM, EU, intellectual property, ISP, linking, search engines, takedown notice, US

European Commission on information location tools
I encourage you to read latest post on ACTA by EFF. And also leaked comments of European Commission (EC) to US proposal of ACTA provisions. What i´ve found (inter alia) interesting is a part of this document, which relates to information location tools liability regime. EC provided it´s short opinion on safe harbour provisions in
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