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...

Supreme Court Author Christine Smith Licence Creative Commons attribution share alike 4.0 international Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert Supreme Court (Lords Mance, Kerr, Sumption, Mance and Hodge)  Cartier International AG and others v British Telecommunications Plc and another   [2018] 1 WLR 3259, [2018] WLR 3259, [2018] WLR (D) 354, [2018] UKSC 28 What this Appeal was about In  Cartier International AG and others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd and others   : [2015] EMLR 10, [2015] 1 All ER 949, [2015] 1 All ER (Comm) 641, [2015] RPC 175, [2014] EWHC 3354 (Ch), [2015] BUS LR 298, [2015] RPC 7, [2015] Bus LR 298, [2015] ETMR 1, [2014] WLR(D) 464 Mr Justice Arnold made an order requiring British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. and other internet service providers ("ISPs") to block access to certain websites which promoted the sale of counterfeit products under s.37 (1)  of the Senior Courts Act 1981. I blogged about the case in...