The European Commission has referred Poland to the EU Court of Justice for failing to fully transpose the Audiovisual Media Services Directive into national legislation.
The European Commission has announced that it will refer five European Union Member States to the EU Court of Justice for failing to implement the new telecoms rules into national legislation in the deadline prescribed.
The European Commission has referred Hungary to the European Court of Justice for failing to end a special tax on the turnover of telecommunications operators. The tax in question was introduced in October 2010 in response to the economic crisis of the country.
The European Commission has asked the European Court of Justice is to examine whether ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is incompatible with the European Union’s fundamental rights and freedoms, the EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has announced.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that a social network cannot be made to install an anti-piracy filtering system.The judgment comes after SABAM, a Belgian institution that manages the copyright of Belgian writers and composers wanted Netlog, a Belgian social networking website with some 94 million registered international users, to install a filtering system
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Internet service providers can’t be made to install monitoring systems to prevent illegal downloads of copyrighted material, as this method of intellectual property rights protection would breach European law.
The European Court of Justice has set legal precedent by clarifying the scope of trademark protection in the EU. On 22 September the Court ruled in the case of Marks and Spencer vs. Interflora and issued a judgement that severely affects competitors who try to take advantage of a protected trademark by misusing internet referencing