Felipe Romero-Moreno

7LAW1040-0901-2018 - Intellectual Property

Seminar 1: Introduction to digital IP

 Recommended for purchase:
Read Introduction 1 Intellectual Property Law (5th edn, OUP 2018), Bently,
Sherman, Gangjee and Johnson (book freely available through Law Trove)

 Essential resources:
Read Case C-275/06 Productores de Musica de Espana (Promusicae) v Telefonica de
Espana SAU [2008] ECR I-271
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=541DFA352DF9F7BC
91038F675CED362A?text=&docid=70107&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&
dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=566583
Read AG opinion in Case C-275/06 Productores de Musica de Espana (Promusicae)
v Telefonica de Espana SAU [2008] ECR I-271
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=541DFA352DF9F7BC
91038F675CED362A?text=&docid=62901&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&
dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=566583
Read In the aftermath of the Promusicae case: how to strike the balance?, Coudert and
Werkers available through LexisLibrary
Read Proportionality is the key in music copyright pre-dispute, IPKat
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2008/01/proportionality-is-key-in-music.html

 Recommended resources:
Read IPO Strategy 2018, Intellectual Property Office
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachme
nt_data/file/713563/IPO-strategy-2018.pdf
Read IPO Corporate Plan 2018, Intellectual Property Office
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachme
nt_data/file/713565/IPO-Corporate-Plan-2018-2019.pdf
Read UK Goverment mulls options to make anti-piracy enforcement easier,
TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-mulls-options-to-make-anti-piracy-
enforcement-easier-180615/

 Additional resources
Read Part I Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy (4th edn, OUP 2016),
Waelde, Brown, Kheria and Cornwell (book freely available through Law Trove)

Seminar 2: Trademarks (keywords advertising)

 Recommended for purchase:

Read Part IV Intellectual Property Law (5th edn, OUP 2018), Bently, Sherman,
Gangjee and Johnson (book freely available through Law Trove)

 Essential resources:
Read Joined cases C-236/08 C-237/08 and C-238/08 Google France SARL and
Google Inc. v Louis Vuitton Malletier SA (C-236/08),Google France SARL v Viaticum
 SA and Luteciel SARL (C-237/08) and Google France SARL v Centre national de
recherche en relations humaines (CNRRH) SARL [2010]
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=83961&pageIndex=
0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=703946
Read AG opinion in Joined cases C-236/08 C-237/08 and C-238/08 Google France
SARL and Google Inc. v Louis Vuitton Malletier SA (C-236/08),Google France SARL
v Viaticum SA and Luteciel SARL (C-237/08) and Google France SARL v Centre
national de recherche en relations humaines (CNRRH) SARL [2010]
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=73281&pageIndex=
0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=703946
Read A comparative analysis of the approach to advertising keywords in South
African and English trade mark law, Magagula and Lees
https://academic.oup.com/jiplp/article/12/3/236/3056542

 Recommended resources
Read Google v Louis Vuitton - A case study, Obersteiner
https://www.grin.com/document/170737
Read Keywords advertising: issues of trademark infringement, Marsoof
http://www.jiclt.com/index.php/jiclt/article/view/118

 Additional resources
Read Part V Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy (4th edn, OUP
2016), Waelde, Brown, Kheria and Cornwell (book freely available through Law
Trove)

Seminar 3: Internet intermediary liability in trade mark cases I (injunctions against

intermediaries)

 Recommended for purchase:

Read Part VI Intellectual Property Law (5th edn, OUP 2018), Bently, Sherman,
Gangjee and Johnson (book freely available through Law Trove)

 Essential resources:
Read Case C-324/09 L'Oréal SA and others v eBay International AG and others
[2011] ECR I-0000
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=107261&pageIndex
=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=700164
Read AG opinion Case C-324/09 L'Oréal SA and others v eBay International AG and
others [2011] ECR I-0000
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=46822&pageIndex=
0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=577523
Read L'Oréal v eBay: a warning to online marketplace operators, Smith and Silver
http://jiplp.blogspot.com/2011/08/loreal-v-ebay-warning-to-online.html

 Recommended resources:
Read Structural aspects of secondary (provider) liability in Europe, Leistner
https://academic.oup.com/jiplp/article/9/1/75/823438
 Read Providers liability: from the E-Commerce Directive to the future,
Sartor http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/614179/IPOL_ID
A(2017)614179_EN.pdf

 Additional resources
Read Part V Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy (4th edn, OUP
2016), Waelde, Brown, Kheria and Cornwell (book freely available through Law
Trove)

Seminar 4: Internet intermediary liability in trade mark cases II (website blocking

injunctions)

 Recommended for purchase:

Read Part VI Intellectual Property Law (5th edn, OUP 2018), Bently, Sherman,
Gangjee and Johnson (book freely available through Law Trove)

 Essential resources:
Read Case C-314/12 UPC Telekabel Wien GmbH v Constantin Film Verleih GmbH
and anor [2014] All ER (D) 302
(Mar)http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=149924&page
Index=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=707253
Read AG opinion in Case C-314/12 UPC Telekabel Wien GmbH v Constantin Film
Verleih GmbH and anor [2014] All ER (D) 302
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=144944&pageIndex
=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=707253
Read Cartier International AG and Others v British Sky Broadcasting Limited and
Others [2014] EWHC 3354 (Ch)
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2003/3354.html
Read Cartier International AG & Ors v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd & Ors [2016]
EWCA Civ 658
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2016/658.html
Read Cartier International AG & Ors v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd & Ors [2018]
UKSC 28
https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2016-0159-judgment.pdf
Read UK Supreme Court rules that ISPs do not have to pay implementation costs in
Cartier case, Rosati
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/06/breaking-uk-supreme-court-rules-that.html

 Recommended resources:
Read Website Blocking, Injunctions and Beyond: View on the Harmonization from
the Netherlands, Husovec
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2967318
Read CJEU allows website-blocking injunctions with some reservations, Husovec
http://jiplp.blogspot.com/2014/06/cjeu-allows-website-blocking.html
Read The blocking injunction: a critical review of its implementation in the United
Kingdom, within the legal framework of the European Union, Marsoof
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3020578
Read Website blocking injunctions to prevent copyright infringements:
proportionality and effectiveness, Lindsay
 http://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/404_10.pdf
Read MPAA granted ‘dynamic’ pirate site blocking order in Singapore, TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-granted-dynamic-pirate-site-blocking-order-in-
singapore-181006/

 Additional resources:
Read Part V Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy (4th edn, OUP
2016), Waelde, Brown, Kheria and Cornwell (book freely available through Law
Trove)

Seminar 5: Copyright and AI

 Recommended for purchase:

Read Part I Intellectual Property Law (5th edn, OUP 2018), Bently, Sherman,
Gangjee and Johnson (book freely available through Law Trove)

 Essential resources:
Read Nova Productions Ltd v Mazooma Games Ltd & Ors (CA) [2007] EWCA Civ
219
Read Artificial intelligence and copyright, Guzman
http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2017/05/article_0003.html
Read Computer generated works: what are they and who owns them?, In Brief
https://www.inbrief.co.uk/intellectual-property/computer-generated-works-copyright/
Read Artificial Intelligence, computer generated works and dispersed authorship:
spectres that are haunting copyright, Maggiore http://www.mmlex.it/en/artificial-
intelligence-computer-generated-works-and-dispersed-authorship-spectres-that-are-
haunting-copyright/
Read The UK’s provisions on computer‐generated works: a solution for AI
creations?, Bently
https://europeancopyrightsocietydotorg.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/lionel-the-uk-
provisions-on-computer-generated-works.pdf

 Recommended resources:
Read Works generated by AI – how Artificial Intelligence challenges our perceptions
of authorship, Manolakev
http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=143870

 Additional resources:
Read Part II Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy (4th edn, OUP
2016), Waelde, Brown, Kheria and Cornwell (book freely available through Law
Trove)
Seminar 6: Internet intermediary liability in copyright cases I (file-sharing and
graduated response)

 Recommended for purchase:

Read Part VI Intellectual Property Law (5th edn, OUP 2018), Bently, Sherman,
Gangjee and Johnson (book freely available through Law Trove)

 Essential resources:
Read British Telecommunications Plc & Anor, R (on the application of) v The
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills [2011] EWHC 1021 (Admin)
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/1021.html
Read R (British Telecommunications plc and TalkTalk Telecom Group plc) v
Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport and others [2012] EWCA
Civ 232
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/r-bt-and-
talktalk-v-ss-for-culture-and-others.pdf
Read Digital Economy Act 2010
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/24/contents
Read Copyright infringement online: the case of the Digital Economy Act judicial
review in the United Kingdom, Mansell and Steinmueller
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/16378584.pdf

 Recommended resources:
Read Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Law: A Primer for Developers,
Lohmann
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mema/courses/cs264/papers/copyright-iptps2003.pdf
Read The Digital Economy Act 2010: subscriber monitoring and the right to privacy
under Article 8 of the ECHR, Romero-Moreno (please email me at f.romero-
moreno@herts.ac.uk for a free copy)
Read Incompatibility of the Digital Economy Act 2010 subscriber appeal process
provisions with Article 6 of the ECHR, Romero-Moreno (please email me at
f.romero-moreno@herts.ac.uk for a free copy)
Read Unblocking the Digital Economy Act 2010; human rights issues in the UK,
Romero-Moreno (please email me at f.romero-moreno@herts.ac.uk for a free copy)
Read Received a piracy warning from your ISP? Here is what to do, TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/received-a-piracy-warning-from-your-isp-heres-what-to-do-
181007/
Read A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 239 F.3d 1004 (2001)
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs588-fall2001/manifests/napster.pdf
Read MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 545 U.S. 913 (2005)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-480.ZS.html

 Additional resources
Read Part II Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy (4th edn, OUP
2016), Waelde, Brown, Kheria and Cornwell (book freely available through Law
Trove)
Seminar 7: Internet intermediary liability in copyright cases II (search engine liability,
follow the money, criminal sanctions, Kodi and blockchain)

 Recommended for purchase:

Read Part VI Intellectual Property Law (5th edn, OUP 2018), Bently, Sherman,
Gangjee and Johnson (book freely available through Law Trove)

 Essential resources:
Read Case C-610/15 Stichting Brein v Ziggo BV, XS4ALL Internet BV [2017] ECDR
19
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=191707&pageIndex
=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=743072
Read AG opinion in C-610/15 Stichting Brein v Ziggo BV, XS4ALL Internet BV
[2017] ECDR 19
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=191707&pageIndex
=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=743072
Read Search engines and piracy, Weatherley
http://www.asiadigitalalliance.com/wp-
content/uploads/2016/05/Mike_Weatherley_Report_Search-Engines-and-Piracy-a.pdf
Read Search engines & copyright holders ready voluntary anti-piracy code,
TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/search-engines-copyright-holders-ready-
voluntary-anti-piracy-code-170208/
Read Follow the money: financial options to assist in the battle against online IP
piracy, Weatherley
http://www.asiadigitalalliance.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Follow-the-Money-
Report-Mike-Weatherley-MP3.pdf
Read Follow the Money: Online Piracy and Self-Regulation in the Advertising
Industry, Batikas, Claussen and Peukert
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2943531
Read Part IV 32 Digital Economy Act 2017
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/30/part/4/enacted
Read Criminal copyright proposals: are they appropriate in the information era?,
Romero-Moreno and Griffin http://ejlt.org/article/view/451
Read Two men sentenced to jail for selling ‘Ooberstick’ Kodi devices, TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/two-men-sentenced-to-jail-for-selling-ooberstick-kodi-
devices-180709/
Read Beyond Bitcoin: the rise of blockchain world, Beck (available online, but you
need to be connected onto StudyNet)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8301120
Read How blockchain can help the fight against counterfeit goods, LSE
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2018/02/08/how-blockchain-can-help-the-fight-
against-counterfeit-goods/
Read

 Recommended resources
Read Google: punishing pirate sites in search results works,
TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/google-punishing-pirate-sites-in-search-results-
works-160713/
 Read Lawyers & academics warn UK against criminalizing file-sharers, TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/lawyers-and-academics-warn-uk-against-criminalizing-file-
sharers-170325/

 Additional resources
Read Part II Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy (4th edn, OUP
2016), Waelde, Brown, Kheria and Cornwell (book freely available through Law
Trove)

Seminar 8: Internet intermediary liability in copyright cases III (notice and takedown,
notice and action and notice and staydown)
 Recommended for purchase:
Read Part VI Intellectual Property Law (5th edn, OUP 2018), Bently, Sherman,
Gangjee and Johnson (book freely available through Law Trove)

 Essential resources:
Read Case C-70/10 Scarlet Extended SA v Société belge des auteurs, compositeurs et
éditeurs SCRL (SABAM) [2012] ECDR 4
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=115202&pageIndex
=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=720643
Read AG opinion in Case C-70/10 Scarlet Extended SA v Société belge des auteurs,
compositeurs et éditeurs SCRL (SABAM) [2012] ECDR 4
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=81776&pageIndex=
0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=720709
Read Notice and staydown and social media: amending Article 13 of the Proposed
Directive on Copyright, Romero-Moreno
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600869.2018.1475906
Read Notice-and-fair-balance: how to reach a compromise between fundamental
rights in European intermediary liability, Angelopoulos
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2944917

 Recommended resources:
Read notice and takedown in everyday practice, Urban, Karaganis and Schofield
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2755628
Read This video is unavailable': analyzing copyright takedown of user-generated
content on YouTube, Erickson and Kretschmer
https://www.jipitec.eu/issues/jipitec-9-1-2018/4680

 Additional resources
Read Part II and Part VIII Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy (4th
edn, OUP 2016), Waelde, Brown, Kheria and Cornwell (book freely available through
Law Trove)

Seminar 9: European Copyright Reform (Article 11 and Article 13 Proposed Directive

on Copyright in the Digital Single Market)

 Recommended for purchase:

Read Part VI Intellectual Property Law (5th edn, OUP 2018), Bently, Sherman,
Gangjee and Johnson (book freely available through Law Trove)
  Essential resources:
Read Case C-360/10 Belgische Vereniging van Auteurs, Componisten en Uitgevers
CVBA (SABAM) v Netlog NV [2012] ECR I-0000
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=119512&pageIndex
=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=720891
Read Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, EC
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0593
Read Reforming intermediary liability in the platform economy: a European digital
single market strategy, Frosio
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/files/publication/files/Giancarlo%20F.%20Frosio%2C%
20Reforming%20IL%20in%20the%20Platform%20Economy%20-
%20A%20EU%20DSM%20Strategy%2C%20112%20NORTHWESTERN%20U.%2
0L.%20REV%2019%20%282017%29.pdf
Read Liability of online service providers for copyrighted content - regulatory action
needed?, Nordemann
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/614207/IPOL_IDA(2017
)614207_EN.pdf

 Recommended resources:
Read The death of ‘no Monitoring obligations’: a story of untameable monsters,
Frosio
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2980786
Read EU Parliament adopts controversial ‘upload filter’ proposal, Torrentfreak
https://torrentfreak.com/eu-parliament-adopts-controversial-upload-filter-proposal-
180912/
Read Axel Voss’s JURI Report on Article 13 would violate internet users’
fundamental Rights, Angelopoulos
http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2018/06/29/axel-vosss-juri-report-article-13-
violate-internet-users-fundamental-rights/

 Additional resources
Read Part II and Part VIII Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy (4th
edn, OUP 2016), Waelde, Brown, Kheria and Cornwell (book freely available through
Law Trove)

Seminar 10: Patents (mobile apps)

 Recommended for purchase:

Read Part II Intellectual Property Law (5th edn, OUP 2018), Bently, Sherman,
Gangjee and Johnson (book freely available through Law Trove)

 Essential resources:
Read US Patent Application 20180284807 (October 4, 2018)
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-
Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-
adv.html&r=3&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=uber.AANM.&OS=aanm/uber&RS=
AANM/uber
Read Uber developing technology that would tell if you're drunk, The Guardian
 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/11/uber-drunk-technology-new-ai-
feature-patent
Read Uber applies for patent to spot drunk passengers, BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44452259

 Recommended resources:
Read Samsung Electronics Co., LTD. v. Apple, Inc., 580 U.S.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-777_7lho.pdf
Read Apple v. Samsung: Is it Time to Change our Patent Trial System?, Bajwa
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=glo
be
Read Design Patent Lessons from Apple v Samsung, Carani
http://patentlyo.com/media/docs/2013/01/carani.apple.pdf

 Additional resources
Read Part IV Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy (4th edn, OUP
2016), Waelde, Brown, Kheria and Cornwell (book freely available through Law
Trove)