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Posted in Art. 11 EnforD, Art. 8(3) InfoSoc, human rights, right to a fair trail, UK, website blocking

What’s Wrong With UK Website Blocking Injunctions?

Hutko
posted on March 10, 2013
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British courts issued already three website blocking injunctions against five copyright-infringing websites (Newzbin II. + 1 , Dramatico Entertainment + 1 , EMI Records ). In this blog post I don’t want to question the effectiveness of the remedy for copyright cases as I did before (see also J Arnold’s opinion in EMI

Posted in copyright, Court of Justice, EU, search engines, UK

Search Engines and Copyright

Hutko
posted on January 17, 2010
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As out-law.com informed, Lord Lucas proposed new amendment to Digital Economy Bill (DEB). There are two significant copyright issues. One refers to organic search, whereas the second to copyright exceptions legislative power. So, let´s first get on the organic search. There are few (real) copyright issues in there. Indexing copies Made when search engine (SE)