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Advertising on Pirate Sites Outlawed in Ukraine Under New Law

TorrentFreak

Ukraine Beats Most of the EU While Ukraine has received widespread criticism for unaddressed and at times rampant online copyright infringement, its participation in WIPO Alert puts it ahead of nearly all EU member states.

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Austrian Supreme Court refers further questions for a preliminary ruling on the InfoSoc Directive

The IPKat

The defendant was offering an internet protocol television (“IPTV”) service to business clients (e.g., network operators, hotels and stadiums). The IPTV service included TV programs created and broadcasted by the Claimant. 2(a) and (e) and Art. 3(1) of the InfoSoc Directive, in connection with Art.

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Google’s Permanent Deindexing of Pirate Sites Spreads Across Europe

TorrentFreak

As reported in February 2022, notices published on the Lumen Database referenced well over one hundred pirate sites, all of which had been previously blocked for copyright infringement under the orders of the High Court in London. Just weeks after deindexing was confirmed in the Netherlands, a similar pattern emerged in the UK.

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EU copyright law round up – fourth trimester of 2021

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This seems to have pushed EU Member States towards compliance – the latest examples here are the Irish European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (19 November), the Italian Decree (published on 27 November), and the Estonian Act implementing the Directive (8 December).