Hangzhou Xihu District Court of China recently issued a unique judgment, ordering the operator of the online platform Shatui Network, Hangzhou Jianshi Network Technology Co. Ltd., to pay compensation to e-commerce platform operator Alibaba. This is the first case where click farming activities have been clearly determined to be unfairly competitive. / read more

In a judgment of wide ranging interest across Europe, the District Court of Amsterdam ruled on 4 October 2017, in the so-called Nike/Action Sport case, on the prohibition of internet sales via an unauthorised online platform in the context of a selective distribution system. / read more

The District Court of Rotterdam in the Netherlands has ruled that the outright prohibition on price differentiation under the net neutrality rules set forth in the Dutch Telecommunications Act contravenes the EU Net Neutrality Regulation¹ and is therefore invalid. On that basis, the Court struck an order issued by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets against T-Mobile Netherlands to cease its offering of zero rated access to music streaming services. / read more

The Higher District Court of Celle dealt with the question of what crimes are committed by an individual who distributes the content of a pay-TV provider to third parties who cannot receive the said content legally due to the lack of a subscription from the pay-TV provider, marking the first time a German Higher District Court has looked into this question. / read more

At the very outset of this case concerning copyright protection in games, the US District Court struck out DaVinci’s claims against ZiKo that copying the method of play and rules of best-selling card game Bang! infringed its copyright. / read more

The District Court found that Shenzhen Juwangshi Technology Corporation, a video streaming service aggregator, breached anti-unfair competition rules by blocking ads while displaying videos streamed from the iQiyi platform. / read more

A US District Court has become the first to award damages under section 512(f) of the DMCA for wrongful takedown. Section 512(f) aims to deter abuse of the requirement that service providers process takedown requests from purported copyright owners. / read more

An Israeli District Court ruled in September that advertisements posted on websites as the result of the use of services provided by Google do not constitute spam according to the Israeli anti-spam law. / read more

A US district court finds that TVEyes’ news monitoring service, which allows subscribers to search news broadcasts and download short video and audio clips, constitutes fair use of Fox’s copyrighted cable programming. / read more

The Amsterdam district court has refused an interim relief order to close the online second hand e-book store Tom Kabinet; the judgment goes against recent foreign judgments ruling that the online offering of works, other than software, does not lead to the exhaustion of rights. / read more