Milan Court of First Instance rejects application for 'blank' blocking order
Every woman's dream: a decoder card to watch Champions League matches with her beau Can a blocking injunction concern a target website as well as any possible top-level domains and other sites - without specifying which - associated with it? This is the question that the Tribunale di Milano (Milan Court of First Instance) addressed and answered in the NEGATIVE in an interesting interim decision (an ordinanza , RG No 31892/2016 - Mediaset Premium v Orlando and Others ) on 27 July 2016, as reported by and commented on very useful online resource Marchi & Brevetti . Background In late May 2016 Mediaset Premium - which holds the exclusive broadcasting rights for the Italian territory of the football matches of some of the principal teams of the Serie A and UEFA Champions League - brought an action seeking an interim injunction against a number of major Italian internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to Calcion. The...