Internet Law - Copyright Law

Collectanea - Professor Georgia Harper’s blog on IP

http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

New web site on gaming law:

http://www.gaminglaw.eu/

It is managed by 4 law firms specialized in this area.

Best of luck to my friends Thibault Verbiest, Etienne Wery and Quirino Mancini.

 Joi Ito, a venture capitalist from Japan and a key driver in the “sharing economy,” will replace professor Lawrence Lessig as chairman of Creative Commons

further information here:

http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003636.shtml

Three governments from the emerging world namely Thailand, Brazil and Malaysia have, although in varying degrees, shown aggression in recent months in the seizure of pharmaceutical patents, causing their supporters in the world to expect a cascade of governments to follow suit, and considerable anxiety among the enthusiasts of intellectual property rights (IPRs).

see the article at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry

The conference announcement and call for papers for 7th ACM-DRM workshop, an academic, interdisciplinary DRM workshop. ACM stands for the Association for Computing Machinery, a leading educational and scientific computing society.
http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~drm2007/DRM/DRM%202007.html

Thanx to Natali Helberger from IViR for reporting this news.

According to the music company, Italian web users have exchanged Peppermint’s music through peer-to-peer systems.

Consumers associations and Data Protection Commissioner claimed that ISPs disclosure of users’ logs and personal data (such as e-mails and addresses) represents an invasion of privacy.

It is remarkable however that copyright infringements is a criminal infringement according Italian laws. It means that a private agreement, like the one proposed by Peppermint, could be unenforceable and could not produce any effect.

For further information, contact me: gmriccio@unisa.it

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Marknadsdomstolen (Sweden) lodged on 6 February 2007 — Kanal 5 Limited and TV 4 Aktiebolag v Föreningen Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå (STIM)

Referring court

Marknadsdomstolen

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicants: Kanal 5 Limited and TV 4 Aktiebolag

Defendant: Föreningen Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå (STIM)

Questions referred

A. Is Article 82 EC to be interpreted as meaning that a practice constitutes abuse of a dominant position where a copyright management organisation which has a de facto monopoly position in a Member State applies to or imposes in respect of commercial television channels a remuneration model for the right to make available music in television broadcasts directed at the general public which involves the remuneration being calculated as a proportion of the television channels’ revenue from such television broadcasts directed at the general public?

B. Is Article 82 EC to be interpreted as meaning that a practice constitutes abuse of a dominant position where a copyright management organisation which has a de facto monopoly position in a Member State applies to or imposes in respect of commercial television channels a remuneration model for the right to make available music in television broadcasts directed at the general public which involves the remuneration being calculated as a proportion of the television channels’ revenue from such television broadcasts directed at the general public, where there is no clear link between the revenue and what the copyright management organisation makes available, that is, authorisation to perform copyright-protected music, as is often the case with, for example, news and sports broadcasts and where revenue increases as a result of development of programme charts, investments in technology and customised solutions?

C. Is the answer to Question A or B affected by the fact that it is possible to identify and quantify both the music performed and viewing?

D. Is the answer to Question A or B affected by the fact that the remuneration model (revenue model) is not applied in a similar manner in respect of a public service company?

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2007:095:0017:01:EN:HTML

thanx to valentin vitkov

MySpace, the world’s leading lifestyle portal, today announced the launch of Take Down Stay Down™, an innovative new feature for copyright holders that prevents users from re-posting video content in the MySpace community after that content has been removed at the request of the copyright owner. MySpace is the first internet company to launch this type of sophisticated content protection feature, which it is offering to all copyright owners free of charge. Take Down Stay Down is the latest addition to the company’s industry leading suite of solutions developed to help copyright owners protect their content on MySpace.com.

 Excerpt from:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070511005160&newsLang=en

If you are looking for information on IT Law on Ireland, I strongly suggest a visit here:

http://www.tjmcintyre.com/

The blog is edited by professor TJ McIntyre Lecturer in the School of Law, University College Dublin

Scholarships at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law

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