Copyright - Columbia Pictures and others v BT Plc and others
Crossroads of the World Author Carol M Highsmith Public domain Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Business and Property Courts, Intellectual Property Lost (Mrs Justice Falk) Columbia Pixtures Inc and others v British Telecommunications Plc and others [2021] EWHC 2799 (ch) (22 Oct 2021) This was an application by members and representatives of the US film and television programme-makers industry for a blocking order against the leading British internet service providers under s.97A of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 ("CDPA"). A blocking order is an injunction requiring an internet service provider to take steps to prevent its subscribers from accessing a proscribed website. S.97A provides: (1) The High Court (in Scotland, the Court of Session) shall have power to grant an injunction against a service provider, where that service provider has actual knowledge of another person using their service to infringe copyright. (2) I...