NIPC Law

Author Sjiong   Licence    CC BY-SA 2.0  Source Wikipedia High Court   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Birss)  Warner Music UK Ltd and others v TuneIn Inc [2019] EWHC 2923 (Ch) (1 Nov 2019) This was an action for copyright infringement brought by the copyright owners or exclusive licensees of sound recordings that account for more than half the market for digital sales of recorded music in the UK and about 43% globally against the audio streaming service TuneIn Inc,  which is said to have 75 million active users around the world with access to about 100,000 radio stations.  This action had been heard by Mr Justice Henry Carr who died before he could deliver judgment. Rather than insist on a full retrial, the parties agreed that Mr Justice Birss should read the materials, including the transcripts of the hearing and then hear the parties' arguments.  The hearing before Mr Justice Birss took place on ...

Court of Justice of the European Union Author: Tercer Dedicated to the Public CC0 1,0 Source Wikipedia  European Court of Justice Jane Lambert Court of Justice of the European Union  (K. Lenaerts, President, Arabadjiev and Judges Vilaras, von Danwitz, Toader, Biltgen and Lycourgos and Presidents of Chambers, Juhász, Ilešič, Bay Larsen and S. Rodin) Case C-516/17 Beck v Spiegel Online GmbH   :  [2019] EUECJ C-516/17, EU:C:2019:625, ECLI:EU:C:2019:625, [2019] WLR(D) 440 This was a reference under art 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union by the Bundersgerichthof (German federal supreme court) on the interpretation of art 5 (3) of  Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (OJ 2001 L 167, p. 10).  It arose in the course of an appeal against an appellate court's decis...