Case of the Week: IPFootball Association Premier League (FAPL) Ltd & Ors v QC Leisure (a trading name) on behalf of David Richardson & Ors; EWHC 108 (Ch); Chancery Division. Kitchin LJ.
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The transmission of football matches via television screens and speakers to customers in public houses had infringed copyrights because they had communicated them to the public via electronic transmission within the meaning of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s.20, which effectively transposed Directive 2001/29.
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Judgment call 5th March 20125 March 2012
The court should order an interim payment if satisfied that the conditions in CPR r.25.7(1)(c) were fulfilled unless there was a specific reason not to do so.
Commercial & Chancery
At a time when litigation is booming, this week’s Special Report looks at three different areas of the Commercial and Chancery divisions. Rhodri Thompson QC shines a spotlight on the crossover between the Chancery division and the competition courts, while Catherine Newman QC explains why the massive JSC Bank case is worth following. The report concludes with Jonathan Harris’s analysis of the future of EU harmonisation on commercial law.
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