Keyword advertising raises interesting questions beyond the run-of-the-mill trademark infringement and unfair competition issues typically discussed. For instance, if a sponsored ad can be clicked in three separate countries, can the Courts of each of those countries take jurisdiction to hear and determine a dispute? The Court of Justice of the European Union has given [...]
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Jurisdiction in Keyword Advertising Disputes After Wintersteiger
October 1st, 2012 
Gareth Dickson 
Posted in trademarks, UK and Europe, vront 
Tags: ECJ, Europe, Google, Internet, jurisdiction, Publications, trade marks, trademarks, UK 
No Comments »UsedSoft v. Oracle article published by Society for Computers and Law
September 22nd, 2012 Gareth Dickson I’m really pleased to have had my review of the Court of Justice’s seminal UsedSoft v. Oracle decision published by the prestigious Society for Computers and Law. Click the image to go there.
Posted in copyright, UK and Europe Tags: copyright, ECJ, Europe, Internet, patents, software, UK No Comments »Some recent trade mark articles
July 13th, 2012 Gareth Dickson Further to my copyright post here, I’ve set out below a list of recent trade mark articles and quotes, with links where possible. A list of my recent copyright publications is here, and there’s a full list of all publications here. “National Use Neither Proves Nor Precludes Finding of Genuine Use of a Community Trade [...]
Posted in trademarks, UK and Europe Tags: ECJ, Europe, Internet, jurisdiction, trade marks, trademarks No Comments »Some recent copyright articles
July 13th, 2012 Gareth Dickson I haven’t been able to write here for some time, but I have been writing elsewhere. Here’s a list of my recent copyright articles, with links. A list of my recent trade mark publications is here, and there’s a full list of all publications here. “EU Court Ruling Chips Away At Software Copyrights,” quoted, Law [...]
Posted in copyright, North America, UK and Europe Tags: copyright, DMCA, ECJ, Europe, Internet, jurisdiction, second circuit, software, US, YouTube No Comments »YouTube Loses Again
April 20th, 2012 Gareth Dickson Below is a Google translation of the Hamburg District Court’s press release of today, when YouTube was found liable for copyright infringement. I haven’t proof read it yet, so it might not make much sense…
Pinterest’s New Terms Expand Indemnity, Ban Commercial Use, Prevent Users Suing Cold Brew Labs
March 25th, 2012 Gareth Dickson On Saturday, March 24, 2012, Pinterest emailed users to say it was updating its Terms of Service. Make no mistake – this is a pretty significant re-write, and kudos to Pinterest for making both sets readily available so we can compare and contrast them. The “proposed” terms come into effect on April 6, 2012 and [...]
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Happy New Year!
December 31st, 2011 Gareth Dickson A quick note to mark the passing of 2011 and the start of 2012. Thank you all for reading and commenting here (and on Twitter) on the stories that have been reported on these pages. I’m looking forward to posting much more in 2012. There has been plenty to contemplate in the last 12 months [...]
Posted in copyright, data protection, North America, patents, privacy, social media, trademarks, UK and Europe Tags: Authors Guild, Book Settlement, copyright, Google, Internet, second circuit, UK, US, YouTube No Comments »More #badIPnews
September 21st, 2011 Gareth Dickson With the increasing importance of intellectual property on companies’ balance sheets, and the rise in litigation between them, the law of averages dictates that we’ll be noticing more mistakes in articles discussing the nature of IP and its territorial limits. You know the sort of thing I mean: bloggers who note how someone is patenting [...]
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Help Us, Copyright; You’re Our Only Hope!
September 15th, 2011 Gareth Dickson As any celebrity – and certain governments and law firms – will tell you, there are risks as well as benefits in being connected to publicly accessible networks. Individuals and collectives such as Wikileaks, Anonymous and LulzSec have embarrassed the US government, the law firm ACS:Law, and now Scarlett Johannson and Jessica Alba by exposing [...]
Posted in copyright, North America, privacy, social media, UK and Europe, vront Tags: copyright, data protection, DMCA, Internet, jurisdiction, photographs, privacy No Comments »Make IT easier for yourself
August 14th, 2011 Gareth Dickson In addition to being able to follow this blog on Twitter, LinkedIn and via RSS, I’ve added a new subscription box to the right hand side of each page so that you can receive new posts via email as soon as they’re posted. You can choose to receive extracts or full text emails, in either [...]
