The 1709 Blog

New issue of @JIPLP is out! Check out our article on first national (Swedish) application of the GS Media principles https://academic.oup.com/jiplp/article-abstract/12/2/89/2971475/Swedish-court-finds-that-an-embedded-link-to?redirectedFrom=fulltext …

Looking forward to speaking on 'Digital World & IP' at the @ManagingIP International Women's Leadership Forum on 9 February in London

.@CopyrightOffice Seeks Public Comments on Moral Rights : http://the1709blog.blogspot.fr/2017/02/us-copyright-office-seeks-public.html … #copyright

After Sweden & Germany, it's now turn of a Czech court to apply GS Media...in an interesting way, as @jrjvv explains http://ipkitten.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/after-sweden-and-germany-gs-media-finds.html …

Who has to bear the costs of a blocking injunction? UK Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeal of ISPs on this point http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-next-round-of-cartier-uk-supreme.html …

FR court confirms that deliberately linking to unlicensed content not OK+orders torrent site to pay damages for €5m https://www.legalis.net/actualite/5-millions-deuros-de-dommages-interets-pour-des-liens-vers-des-contrefacons/ …

Should Press Publishers be Given an Exclusive Neighbouring Right? http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/should-press-publishers-be-given.html … via @1709blog

Harvard IP fellowship: applications sought http://ift.tt/2jJg5ws 

Love a bit of copyright history: Fake news is not a new thing and news should not be protected by copyrighthttps://twitter.com/LionelBently/status/826461093098876928 …

.@McShnibb asks: Should Press Publishers be Given Exclusive Neighbouring Right? [CIPIl @cambridgelaw recent comment] http://the1709blog.blogspot.fr/2017/02/should-press-publishers-be-given.html …

Very interesting readhttps://twitter.com/1709blog/status/826528053857763328 …

V interesting. We have a free infosheet & a book on moral rights in Australia. http://www.copyright.org.au/acc_prod/AsiCommon/Controls/BSA/Downloader.aspx?iDocumentStorageKey=77905fc6-ac1d-43f9-9ac3-e7179aefd46b&iFileTypeCode=PDF&iFileName=Moral%20Rights …https://twitter.com/1709blog/status/824252174813249536 …

The out-of-commerce works provisions in the draft directive on copyright in the DSM analysed by Prof Blomqvist http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/international-comity-or-triple-error.html …

Moral rights and public domain works: @MarieAndreeW discusses yet another interesting French decision http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/france-any-alterationmodification-of.html …

Today's CJEU decision on punitive damages shows once again how weak the harmonising force of Directive 2004/48 is http://ipkitten.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/breaking-cjeu-rules-that-eu-law-does.html …

Does EU law allow punitive damages in IP cases? CJEU decision in Stowarzyszenie Oławska Telewizja Kablowah due 25/1! http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=185576&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=616274 …