Music no longer free for charities
Charities and not-for-profit organizations will need to get a licence to play copyrighted music from Phonographic Performance Limited and PRS for Music, which together collect and distribute royalties...
Archive for December, 2010
Without prejudice, except for “interpretation” – Oceanbulk Shipping Trading SA v TMT Asia Ltd and others, Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has ruled that the content of without prejudice negotiations over a settlement agreement is admissible in court when trying to prove what a contract, or clause of a contract, is intended...
Tax news for farmers
HMRC have announced today:
Farmers can use red diesel now to help out during this extreme weather snap
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) confirmed today that during extreme weather farmers can use...
Taxes for 2011/2012
One thing you can't fault the current chancellor on is transparency. We know when the next budget is going to be and, painful though it is, the CSR gave us quite a lot of information about what the future...
Newspaper monitoring service users must pay licence fee to newspapers collecting agency to receive service – NLA v Meltwater, High Court
Meltwater provided an online service whereby it created newspaper monitoring reports for customers. The reports contained the headline, opening text and extract from the articles. Meltwater told customers...
Google investigated over allegations of abuse of dominant position in search engine market
Google is being investigated by the European Commission over allegations that it abused its dominant position in the search engine market, contrary to European Union competition law. The fact that...
Hacker ordered to pay £20,000
A computer hacker has been ordered to pay £20,000 in fines, costs and compensation after he hacked into a number of student accounts at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies. He...
Location of infringement of database rights determined by where it was made available online, not where received – Football Dataco v Sportradar, High Court
FD created and exploited data relating to English professional football matches. It owned and operated a database called ‘Football Live’, which provided an online service with scores and other match...
Free IP from Glasgow University
The University of Glasgow is to offer the intellectual property (IP) in patents developed within the University free for use in the commercial world, under a scheme called ‘Easy Access IP’. The move...
