Developments In Intellectual Property Law (Video Content)

In conjunction with the upcoming World IP Day (26 April 2015), we held an in-house counsel masterclass on recent developments in IP and social media law. The following is an overview of some of the IP developments included in the session and our speakers have given a summary of their remarks in the video below.

Injunction granted against ISP to adopt a Graduated Response Scheme (GRS)

In March 2015, the Irish Commercial Court granted an injunction against an ISP to implement and adopt a GRS to assist in the enforcement of music companies' copyright against the ISP's subscribers.

The precise scope of the scheme is unknown as the parties will make further submissions on the form of the order including exclusions, safeguards and the contribution of righsholders to the costs of the GRS. However, the order will involve at least two educational / warning letters being sent to the ISP's subscribers identified as infringing copyright.