Copyright As Well As Costs

Spain introduces copyright levy

Slashdot reports that Kingdom of Spain is introducing a taxation on all blank media, including cd-r, dvd-r, flash media, printers, scanners in addition to mobile phones.

reckons that, if a levy is beingness collected to recompense copyright holders, this should hold out reflected inward a reduced royalty flow from other forms of copyright enforcement.


Prospective cost-capping inward IP cases

Mann J has delivered what he states is, to his knowledge, the commencement illustration requesting a prospective cost-capping guild inward an IP case. The claimant inward this passing off activity (Andrew Knight v Beyond) is instructing his solicitors nether a conditional fee understanding merely does non bring after-the-event insurance embrace for whatsoever costs that he would bring to pay the defendants if he were unsuccessful. The defendants sought an guild which would prospectively boundary the total of costs which they would hold out liable for if the claimant succeeds inward this activity in addition to larn an guild for costs against them.

The guild was refused because Isle of Mann J institute that the costs could hold out adequately dealt alongside through an after-trial costs assessment. Although at that topographic point were for sure ‘danger points’ identified alongside regard to proposed expenditure, the gauge hearing whatsoever activity regarding costs would hold out able to adequately police line them ex postal service facto.

notes that there’s a tricky balancing deed to hold out performed here. While it would hold out undesirable for judges to interfere also closely inward how litigants lead to run their cases, yesteryear the fourth dimension it’s later the event, it may hold out also belatedly for unreasonable costs to hold out recouped.