Disney has suffered a potentially devastating setback in its legal effort to stop Redbox from selling digital codes to Disney films. A federal Court in California denied Disney’s request for a preliminary injunction against Redbox on the grounds that Disney has engaged in copyright misuse, an affirmative defense to Disney’s contributory copyright infringement and other related claims. / read more

The Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) has issued a preliminary ruling on the appropriate jurisdiction for a claim arising out of online defamation, finding that a claimant can take legal action for all damage claimed, and for a takedown injunction, in the country where it has its centre of interests. / read more

The court granted a preliminary injunction ordering the redirection of traffic from websites run by the defendants containing allegedly copyright infringing material. / read more

The trial of a preliminary issue in a libel action between Lord McAlpine and Sally Bercow, involved the determination of the meaning of words complained of in a tweet and whether that meaning was defamatory. / read more

The court ruled that a private blogger, who commented about the relationship of Norwegian celebrities, would have to remove the post and all references to it, in a case that highlights an interesting balance between the right to privacy and free speech. / read more

Court rules ‘Near Video on Demand’ service is a ‘Television broadcast service’ within the TVwF Directive. / read more

OFCOM sends statement of objections to BT over residential broadband pricing

Press Release dated 01/09/04

Preliminary finding from OFCOM that BT has abused its dominant position / read more

Use of customer information - restrictive rules suspended. / read more

Plaintiff-appelle represented by Lynn H. Pasahow, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen

Defendants-appellants represented by Jonathan A. Marshall, Pennie & Edmonds. / read more