A case comment of of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision in Dr. Seuss Enterprises LP v. ComicMix LLC, Hauman, Friedman and Templeton, Case No. 3:16-cv-02779-JLS-BGS (18 December 2020)

By a judgment on 16 March 2020, the Central District Court of California handed a major win to Katy Perry over her hit song “Dark Horse” (viewed almost 3 billion times on YouTube, the most viewed female video to date). The Court could not find any trace of substantial similarity because none...

This paper adresses the debates surrounding the impact of the Internet and cloud computing technology to the activities in music industry, especially at the stage of music distribution and dissemination. Building upon the realistic observations concerning the ‘conventional' as well as...

The Article is devoted to analyse general principles of EC law that are pertinent in state aid proceedings. Particular emphasis is placed to investigate the clash of public and private interests in the field of state aid law. The author modestly considers the possibility of the improvement of...

Over centuries, efficient allocation of limited resources has been one main concerns of governments and social scientists. The emergence of the Internet fuelled the proliferation of online matching platforms that facilitate the redistribution of omnipresent surplus resources. This article...

This article is devoted to analyse the drafting process of Rome I regulation and highlight certain challenges that emerge during the preparation of the new regulation. Authors inter alia pinpoint dubious solutions of the Rome I proposal. In particular, proposed conflict of laws rules to the...

This paper aims to review the current law and economics debate of the issues that surround private international law disputes. There have been various attempts to explain various aspects of cross-border disputes between individuals. The existing theories tend to focus on efficiency...

The main thesis of this article is that individuals should own their user-held data. Rapidly developing data processing technologies empowers individuals to collect their data from different sources and retain it in personal data clouds. Such user-held data represents the most accurate,...

The chapter “Jurisdiction” of the International Law Association’s Guidelines on Intellectual Property and Private International Law (“Kyoto Guidelines”) provides where international intellectual property claims can be brought to court. It defines the basic forum at the defendant's...

The emergence and development of global business activities, and the inception of the Internet have resulted in the creation of a new field of legal studies concerning cross-border enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights. This novel area of law is known as private international law and...