News From Scotland

A Glasgow bar has cash inwards one's chips the kickoff inwards Scotland to live on hitting amongst a courtroom punishment for showing English linguistic communication Premiership football game matches via the unauthorised role of unusual broadcasts. The Football Association Premier League (FAPL) direct maintain issued a unloosen proverb that the Merchants Quay bar inwards Paisley Road faces having to pay the FAPL upwards to £6,000 for copyright infringement inwards damages too costs awarded inwards the Court of Session - although the finally amount has soundless to live on determined. The FAPL says the judgement follows an 18-month long crackdown inwards Scotland against bars using unusual feeds to demo matches from the top flying of English linguistic communication football. The Premier League says it has sent 31 'letters earlier action' to pubs inwards Scotland. It says that in the bulk of cases the pubs  simply agreed to cease showing the matches. In 5  cases the FAPL took legal activity against pubs too interim interdicts were awarded, preventing unauthorised broadcasts until a courtroom hearing.

The FAPL direct maintain pledged farther potent activity equally it undertakes a programme to forbid 'the undermining of its bargain amongst Sky Sports too BT Sport for coverage of Premier League matches'. Readers of this Blog volition recall the case involving Portsmouth landlady Karen Murphy which established that individuals living inwards the Britain are allowed to role digiboxes which supply authorised services from other European Union fellow member states to spotter Premier League football game inwards the Britain However this instance did non extent such a correct to commercial premises.

A Premier League spokesman said: "The courts granted the judgment next failure yesteryear the defendants to engage inwards the case, despite several attempts to contact the publican."

And also from Scotland - too the Scottish Law Society - who direct maintain said that proposed European Union legislation allowing vacation makers travelling inwards Europe to access online content, such equally digital celluloid too TV services is 'too timid'. Whilst the Society has welcomed the European Commission’s proposed legislation, which would allow European Union residents travelling inside the European Union to access digital content services which they direct maintain paid for inwards their domicile country, they direct maintain called for the legislation on cross-border portability of digital content services to live on extended to encompass digital subscriptions purchased yesteryear European Union residents anywhere inwards the EU.

Jim McLean, convener of the Law Society’s Intellectual Property committee, said: “We’re delighted that the European Commission is looking at ways to meliorate online content services for consumers too welcome the proposed rule which volition allow European Union residents to access digital services such equally Netflix, Sky too Amazon Prime, when travelling inside the European Union on vacation or business. But he added: “However nosotros believe the proposed legislation is also timid too should also encompass online content services purchased or obtained yesteryear a subscriber inside the EU, fifty-fifty if that is exterior of their domicile country" too “This would align amongst the Commission’s strategy to allow for wider online access to industrial plant yesteryear users across the European Union too would live on to a greater extent than straightforward for both the consumers too the providers.”

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14278737.Glasgow_pub__quot_first_in_Scotland_quot__to_receive_penalty_for_Premier_League_copyright_breach/

Joined cases C-403/08 Football Association Premier League Ltd too Others v QC Leisure too Others too C-429/08 Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd 

More on the Karen Murphy instance here. 

http://www.lawscot.org.uk/news/2016/02/eu-proposals-for-tv,-music-and-sport-subscriptions-too-timid-says-law-society/