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Day: 9 November 2016

Mavrix Photographs v. LiveJournal: the issues of safe harbour appliance

Published 9th November 2016

LiveJournal operates a web-based social media platform that allows users to create personalized online “journals.” LiveJournal users can also create “communities” around specific topics or shared interests. Users can post content to their personal journals or to communities they join, and can comment on content posted by other users. Anyone can set up a LiveJournal account and participate in the service. Currently, LiveJournal hosts more than 14 million journals and more than 2.6 million communities.

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Ennio Morricone wants his copyright in music for three films back

Published 9th November 2016

Composer filed suit seeking a declaratory judgment that Marricone Music is the sole proprietor of the United States copyright in three film scores composed by Ennio Morricone and that all United States rights to those film scores now being claimed by Bixio Music were terminated. This case arises out of an actual controversy between Morricone Music and Bixio both of which have asserted competing claims to public performance royalties collected by the ASCAP from the public performance of the film scores in the US.

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Draft opinion by Gilles Lebreton on conclusion of the Agreement between the EU and the Government of Canada regarding the application of their competition laws

Published 9th November 2016

In the current economic context, the protection of consumers and businesses from abuses of competition law is a particularly important goal. Systems of protection are well established at national level and, for some time, have been coordinated at European level, in the context of the single market.

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