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Rock n' Roll and Pop music as we know it is approximately 60 years old. Over this time, there have been many well-documented cases of recording artists 'borrowing' ideas from or being inspired by one another, yet the claim recently brought by the Estate of Marvin Gaye against Pharrell Williams and...
31/03/2015 David Steinberg, Dentons, Canada
The Information Society Code, a major piece of legislation stringing together various existing and updated laws on communication networks and electronic communication services, has for the most part entered into force at the beginning of 2015. To a large extent,...
Many facts, one truth: mobile network operators' profit margins and average revenue per user shrink year on year at a global level. In mature markets, differentiation is now made on the quality, diversity and technological advancement of services along with data bandwidth. In emerging...
01/01/2015 Purvi Parekh, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, United Kingdom Sylvie Rousseau, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, Belgium Thibault Soyer, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, France
In the UK, the owners of trade marks for valuable goods have a serious problem with counterfeiters on the internet. The rights holders also have a problem when seeking to block the websites selling such counterfeited goods. As soon as one website is taken down by a court order, the same seller jumps...
01/01/2015 David Allen Green, Preiskel & Co, United Kingdom
During the past year there has been a fervent activity in the media sector. We set out below a brief update on two of the most controversial topics: the regulations for logical channel numbering (LCN) for Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting and the copyright infringement regulations in online and...
01/01/2015 Giangiacomo Olivi, Dentons, Italy Alessandro Ferrari, DLA Piper, Italy
Foreigners have long been puzzled by a peculiarity of the German cable TV market: Broadcasters have to pay cable operators for the distribution of their programs. This so called "transport model" has been the predominant business model in the German cable TV market since the...
01/01/2015 Ralf Weisser, McDermott Will & Emery, Germany
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