Three adult media entertainment producers filed suit yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging copyright infringement against hundreds of anonymous defendants accused of trading videos using Bittorrent. This kind of action resembles the much-criticized mass litigation undertaken by the U.S. Copyright Group against hordes of unknown accused Bittorrent users [...]
By letter of 27 March 2002, the Commission rejected that application for access stating, in particular, that the documents sought were covered by the exception in Art. 4(2) of Regulation 1049/2001. The Commission also stated that the documents concerni…
Commission rightfully refusing Bavaria Lager access to certain EU documents(Mensing & Stetcher 1879)By this appeal, the Commission of the European Communities sought the annulment of the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Commu…
Court clarifies scope of Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive By judgment of 22 September 2005 in Case C-221/03 Commission v Belgium [2005], the Court held that, by failing to adopt within the relevant time-limit the…
Subsidies granted in 1980′s still state aidThis reference for a preliminary ruling had been made in the context of proceedings between fellimento Traghetti del Mediterraneo SpA (‘TDM’), a maritime transport undertaking in liquidation, and the…
Court uphelds Roaming Directive Roaming messageIn 2002, the Community legislature adopted, on the basis of Art. 95 EC, a regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services. The purpose of this Directive was inter alia to ensure t…
In 2002, the Community legislature adopted, on the basis of Article 95 EC, a regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (‘the Regulatory Framework’). The purpose of this Directive was inter alia to ensure that all transmis…
I enjoyed talking with Anna Devlantes and Corey McPherrin this morning on our local Fox affiliate’s morning program about defamation online and the challenging problem of unmasking anonymous defendants. The video is embedded below, or you can go here if it’s not showing up in the RSS feed.
Michael Fitzgibbon has a good article summarizing a recent case in which the court made some very clear comments on various aspects of damage awards for wrongful dismissal on his Thoughts from a Management Lawyer blog. Its a worthwhile read. Even though I’ve used the common term “wrongful dismissal” - the court points out that there [...]
That’s the title of my Slaw post from today. It reads as follows: Most of us realize that merely deleting a file doesn’t really remove it from the hard drive or other storage media it resides on. (For some background on this issue see a post I wrote a while back.) Given how we use [...]