IPKat

Launched in 2003 as a teaching aid for Intellectual Property Law students in London, the IPKat’s weblog has become a popular source of material, comment and amusement. IPKat covers copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

The IPKat team is Neil J. Wilkof, Annsley Merelle Ward, Darren Smyth, Nicola Searle, Eleonora Rosati, Merpel and David Brophy.

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YouTube Takes Copyright Law into Their Own Hands with New Rules for Music

Rightsholders will lose the ability to manually claim payment for unintended use of their music, but they can still block the videos.

Australia Considers Copyright Reform for Digital Platforms

The Australian public enquiry is the first of its kind, so will likely influence decisions made by other authorities around the world.

Telia Defeats Royalties Collectors in Fight Over IPTV

The Finnish Market Court ruled that the ISP need not make payments to a collection society because their IPTV streams are original broadcasts, not retransmissions of over-the-air TV.

Obituary Piracy Website Ordered to Pay CAD20mn Damages by Canadian Court

Creators of digital archives are likely to suffer heavier penalties if they use content in a way that the owners find upsetting.

Italian Court Holds Facebook Liable for Links to Unlicensed Videos

The Court awarded damages of EUR30,000 after Facebook failed to rapidly remove links to the video of a song.

Swedish Court Rejects Telia Blocking Injunction

The Swedish Patents and Market Court of Appeal decided a blocking injunction was disproportionate.

Huge Fine for Chinese Online Video Pirates QVOD

A court in Guangdong has upheld a fine of CNY260mn (USD38.5mn) after Tencent and other major Chinese online video providers complained that QVOD supported piracy.

Top EU Lawyer Says Germany Cannot Enforce Net Copyright Law

The EU was not given proper notification of a German law that limits web quotations from press articles.

First Greek Net Blocking Orders Prove Ineffective

Greece is the latest country to discover that if you block a specific URL then pirates will simply move their site to a different URL.

Punishing Links to Defamatory Content May Violate Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights found a Hungarian news website had the right to link to a defamatory YouTube video.

Court Orders Telia to Block The Pirate Bay

Telia will appeal an interim decision to block The Pirate Bay and other websites, saying "this is a matter of truly principal importance for us and for the Internet".

French Tribunal Scrubs Twitter’s Right to Exploit User Content

Twitter's global terms and conditions conflict with French law by claiming broad rights to copy and share user content.

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