Access our Services
Blogs
Enquiries
Newsletters
Tag Archives: Copyright
Intellectual Property for Start-ups and other Small Businesses
Intellectual property (“IP”) is the collective term for the bundle of rights that protect investment in branding, design, technology, art and literature. Examples of such rights (“IPR”) include patents for inventions, registered trade marks for brands, registered designs for product … Continue reading
Reflections on Newzbin
The case was important for three reasons: –
– Technically: it seems to have been the first case in the common law world at any rate on usenet as opposed to file sharing technology;
– Commercially: it is something of a victory for film and music the viability of which has been threatened by digitization; and
– Legally: the decision did make some new law on authorization and making available. Continue reading
Posted in Copyright
Tagged authorization, communication, Copyright, infringement, newsgroups, Newzbin, usenet
Leave a comment
New Case Note: SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd.
I first learned of SAS Institute Inc v World Programming Ltd [2010] EWHC 1829 (Ch) (23 July 2010) from Martin Howe QC at the IP Bar Association garden party last Monday. Martin had been my opponent in Ibcos Computers Ltd v … Continue reading
Copyright: Twentieth Century Fox v Newzbin
Newzbin raised some interesting questions on authorization following close on the heels of the decision of the Federal Court of Australia in Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Ltd and it is also the first decision in England on the making available right Continue reading
Posted in Copyright
Tagged authorization, Copyright, making available, Newzbin, Roadshow Films
Leave a comment
NIPC Law 