AA Thornton

This Practice Note summarises and explains the background to and individual articles of the EU Digital Single Market Copyright Directive, Directive (EU) 2019/790 (EU DSM Copyright Directive), covering the controversy around the wording of the provisions of the EU DSM Copyright Directive including Article 15 on rights in press publications and Article 17 on use of protected content by online content sharing service providers. The Practice Note also covers implementation in the UK and in Member States and potential future divergence between the UK and EU on key provisions.

This Practice Note summarises and explains the background to and individual articles of the EU Digital Single Market Copyright Directive, Directive (EU) 2019/790 (EU DSM Copyright Directive), including the controversy around the wording of certain provisions of the EU DSM Copyright Directive such as Article 15 on rights in press publications and Article 17 on use of protected content by online content sharing service providers. The Practice Note also covers the implementation in Member States.

This Practice Note summarises and explains the background to and individual articles of the EU Digital Single Market Copyright Directive, Directive (EU) 2019/790 (EU DSM Copyright Directive), including the controversy around the wording of certain provisions of the EU DSM Copyright Directive such as Article 15 on rights in press publications and Article 17 on use of protected content by online content sharing service providers. The Practice Note addresses the status of the EU DSM Copyright Directive in the UK and divergence between the UK and EU on key provisions.

This Practice Note deals with court powers to take action against internet service providers (ISPs) in relation to infringement of intellectual property (IP) rights. The infringement is usually in the form of peer-to-peer copying of films or music files or via websites which facilitate access to streams of television broadcasts of sporting events; where that is found the courts may make an order under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to block access to the infringing website, from the UK. It covers website blocking based on copyright infringement and trade mark infringement including an analysis of the Cartier case, live and dynamic blocking orders, costs of applications, forms of order and what is next on the horizon for blocking orders.

This is a witness statement on behalf of a claimant in trade mark infringement and passing off proceedings, written by the claimant’s CEO, giving evidence as to ownership of the marks, reputation due to the claimant’s use (for example on the internet), and marketing spend. Details of the sample offending purchase are also given as well as reference to evidence of consumer confusion.