NIPC Law

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...

Cartier Watch Author Noop1958 Creative Commons Licence Source Wikipedia Cartier International AG and Others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd and Others [2016] EWCA Civ 658 (6 July 2016)  In   Cartier International AG and Others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd and Others   [2015] ETMR 1, [2015] 1 All ER 949, [2014] EWHC 3354 (Ch), [2015] RPC 7, [2014] WLR(D) 464, [2015] 1 All ER (Comm) 641, [2015] BUS LR 298, [2015] EMLR 10 Mr Justice Arnold ordered the five leading internet service providers to block access to certain websites that offered counterfeit Cartier goods for sale under s.37 (1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981. I discussed the case in  Injunctions against ISPs Part VIII: Cartier International AG and Others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd and Others   6 Jan 2015. This was not the first time a court had ordered an ISP to block access to a website that infringed a claimant's intellectual property rights.  A number of ea...