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Right: minor practitioners enjoying the benefits of professional person cooperation as well as support.


Haiku Competition

Enter IPKat Competition no.3 (details here) as well as you lot tin win complimentary admission to CLT's Copying Without Infringing one-day conference on 23 March 2006. All you lot convey to do is to compose a haiku on a dependent area relating to the unauthorised copying of IP-protected subject-matter. You tin either write nearly infringements or nearly copying that falls inside the orbit of a legal defence. Closing engagement for entries is Th 9 March 2006, 12pm GMT.

It seems to the IPKat that haikus are posing to a greater extent than of an intellectual challenge than did limericks or truthful cat captions. Merpel adds, the fewer the divulge of words involved, the to a greater extent than reluctant are lawyers to instruct involved inwards it!


Forthcoming ECJ attractions

Next Tuesday, 14 February, the European Court of Justice is hearing arguments on a reference for a preliminary ruling yesteryear the Østre Landsret, Denmark. inwards Case C-479/04 Laserdisken ApS v Kulturministeriet. The ECJ has been asked to consider only ii questions:

1.Is Article 4(2) of Directive 2001/29 on the harmonisation of sure enough aspects of copyright as well as related rights inwards the data lodge invalid?

Note: Article 4(2) reads: "The distribution correct shall non endure exhausted inside the Community inwards honor of the master copy or copies of the work, except where the get-go sale or other transfer of ownership inwards the Community of that object is made yesteryear the rightholder or amongst his consent".

2.Does Article 4(2) of the same Directive prevent a Member State from retaining international exhaustion inwards its legislation?

The minute query is aimed at clarifying whether a Member State wishing to accord greater weight to liberty of facial expression as well as citizens' access to cultural goods than to the want to protect national rightholders against contest may derogate from Article 4(2).


On the same 24-hour interval the Advocate General gives his Opinion inwards Case C-169/05 Uradex. This is a reference from the Belgian Court of Cassation on the interpretation of Article 9(2) of Council Directive 93/83 on the coordination of sure enough rules concerning copyright as well as rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting as well as cable retransmission. The reference deals amongst (i) the extent of the powers of a collecting lodge which is deemed to endure mandated to deal the rights of a copyright possessor or holder of related rights who has non transferred the management of his rights to a collecting lodge as well as (ii) the practice of the correct to grant or spend upward say-so to a cable operator for cable retransmission.


On Th 16 February at that spot are likewise hearings inwards ii appeals brought yesteryear Storck inwards honor of its sweet-wrappers: Cases C-24 as well as C-25/05 Storck v Office for Harmonisation inwards the Internal Market. doesn't concur out much promise of these marks achieving CTM status, distinctive grapheme as well as consumer recognition existence major barriers inwards situations such every bit this.