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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog: Domain Names, Metatags & Comparative Advertising
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog. Sunday, September 1, 2013. Domain Names, Metatags and Comparative Advertising. CJEU in summer decided an very interesting technology related case - Belgian Electronic Sorting Technology. The case might have strong consequences for both the domain name dispute resolution and search engine optimization - SEO (assuming that metatags still matter at least a little bit). The BEST case is an unfair competition case. The referring Belgian court wanted to know whether. 36 In order to...
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog: ECtHR: Delfi AS v Estonia Hearing
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog. Wednesday, July 9, 2014. ECtHR: Delfi AS v Estonia Hearing. Today, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights is holding a hearing. In an important intermediary liability case - Delfi AS v. Estonia. The Court is hoped to correct many issues which the Chamber judgement so flagrantly overlooked. And as a consequence alarmed 69 organizations to support. The re-hearing of the case. An NGO I volunteer for, also submitted one such brief. I invite you to read the brief.
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog: CJEU Allowed Website Blocking Injunctions With Some Reservations
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog. Thursday, March 27, 2014. CJEU Allowed Website Blocking Injunctions With Some Reservations. So the CJEU finally issued its UPC Telekabel Wien. Decision. It contains several good points, but also some missed opportunities (the rejections of a need of specific measures is quite a disappointment), and black-box type of issues, where only the time will tell. But before I get to the ruling, it is very interesting to see that CJEU yet again ( Scarlet. Same story) did not. The Court...
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog: ECHR on Liability of ISPs as a Restriction of Freedom of Speech
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog. Monday, October 14, 2013. ECHR on Liability of ISPs as a Restriction of Freedom of Speech. European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg handed down its first "ISP liability" case - Delfi AS v. Estonia. App No. 64569/09. The case concerns a question of liability of an Internet news portal for third party comments made on its website under one of the news items. The articles received about 10,000 readers’ comments daily, the majority posted under pseudonyms. An information soci...
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog: CJEU: Hyperlinks Are Copyright Free. Are They Really?
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog. Thursday, February 13, 2014. Ruling of the CJEU is now available online. It will be most likely positively received by the European media. And probably rightly so. Despite this, however, I can not help to (preliminary) question two basic issues in the ruling:. Assumption of the authorized (source) content. If the right owner did not authorize the source content to which I link, is the link still not communicating a work to "a new public"? Can the pre-emption work? CJEU opines...
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog: CJEU Confirms Pinckney Ruling
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog. Wednesday, April 9, 2014. CJEU Confirms Pinckney Ruling. For all the private international law and IP law enthusiast, it might of interest that in the meantime of waiting for Coty Prestige C-360/12. Ruling, the CJEU issued its Hi Hotel. Ruling last week (without an advice from Advocate General). Hi Hotel. Partially pre-determines the outcome of Coty Prestige. Ruling is confirmed. Several points are still not clear, but it is fair to say that Hi Hotel. EU:C:2013:305), in the p...
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog: CJEU is Asked: Are Dynamic IP Addresses Personal Data?
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog. Tuesday, October 28, 2014. CJEU is Asked: Are Dynamic IP Addresses Personal Data? BGH just issued a press release. Informing that it filed a preliminary reference to the CJEU. The question is whether dynamic IP addresses constitute a personal data according to Art. 2 (a) Data Protection Directive. The case arose between an individual who is suing the Federal Republic of Germany for an injunction against the storage of its information. In particular by reference to an identifi...
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Martin Husovec « MicroBlog Priateľov EISi
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O informačnej spoločnosti, autorských a priemyselných právach a internetovom práve. Je miesto (živá stena). Kde sa český a slovenský nadšenci práva a informačnej spoločnosti môžu stretnúť, podeliť o svoje odkazy a názory, a tiež neformálne porozprávať o aktuálnom dianí. Chceš tu tiež písať? Komentoval Môže byť obchádzanie technickej ochrany hernej konzoly legálne? Komentoval Prípady zo SR. Komentoval EISi hľadá dobrovoľníkov z oblasti práva duševného vlastníctva a ICT práva pre nový NEWSLETTER! Narozdiel...
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog: Czech Court Asks CJEU: Is Teritorrial Monopoly of Collecting Societies Compatible with Free Movement of Services?
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog. Saturday, December 15, 2012. Czech Court Asks CJEU: Is Teritorrial Monopoly of Collecting Societies Compatible with Free Movement of Services? The new reference for a preliminary ruling was lodged on 24 July 2012 and comes from Regional Court in Pilsen. It was filed in course of pending case - Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním, o.s. (OSA) v Léčebné lázně Mariánské Lázně, a.s. Curia notation is OSA. So what is it all about? 1 Must Directive 2001/29/EC. Particul...
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog: ECtHR: Imposing Strict Liability for User Comments is Compatible with Freedom of Expression
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Huťko´s Technology Law Blog. Wednesday, June 17, 2015. ECtHR: Imposing Strict Liability for User Comments is Compatible with Freedom of Expression. Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its Grand Chamber ruling in Delfi AS v Estonia. 64569/09), a case involving an online publisher (Delfi) who was sued for third party anonymous comments on his website. There is much to be said about the decision, but maybe next time. Needles to say, I find it deeply disappointing, not only because of...
