Posts under ‘Disputes’

Lawyers are expensive, particularly if you are in dispute with someone.  However, because prevention does not sell, many small business owners tend not to use lawyers except when they are unfortunate enough to face litigation.  In the meantime, rather than use lawyers to draft any agreements for them, even important ones like terms of business. [...]

The Premier League is the world’s most watched and most lucrative football league in terms of revenue.  So, revenue from television rights is vitally important to it. The Football Association Premier League ltd. (FAPL) sells its rights in the broadcast of matches individually on a territory by territory basis. In order to access the service [...]

The popular social networking site Facebook, valued in the billions of dollars, is facing legal action brought by a plaintiff who claims to be entitled to the lion’s share of the business.  The claim alleges that Paul Ceglia paid Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg to develop the site in exchange for $1,000.  The contractual agreement which [...]

A controversial subject for some, copyright infringement has become a more common conversation topic as peer-to-peer networks, and widespread high speed broadband, have made it easy for members of the public to find, download, and share copyrighted material without seeking permission from the owner.  At the same time, copyright owners are finding more effective methods [...]

The Guardian, Times, Reuters Group and others secured a ruling in Strasbourg that they need not comply with UK court orders requiring them to reveal the source behind a leaked copy of a confidential Interbrew presentation.  The anonymous source had leaked the document to various media organizations which subsequently published articles about the content of [...]

The House of Lords’ decision yesterday that Matthew Fisher’s 38 year delay in claiming a share of copyright royalties should not prevent him claiming future royalties has been widely reported.  See, for example the IPkat here. It is interesting therefore to focus here on how joint copyright arises, and how it came about that Fisher’s [...]

Now that the High Court in Interflora v Marks & Spencer has suggested a referral to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the question of trade mark infringement for using of competitors’ keywords in adwords campaigns, (reported by the Ipkat ) it takes to seven the number of referrals to the ECJ on this [...]

A problem faced by bands sometimes is the discovery of another band sharing the same name. Unfortunately this rarely happens at the early stages when a band first adopts its name. Often, a substantial amount of marketing and resources will have been invested into promoting the band’s name on CDs, DVDs and merchandise before it’s [...]