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At home and studying IP? The Coronavirus outbreak has been posing major challenges  also  to IP education, with many university classes now moving or already moved online.  Besides the rich IPKat archive, I would like to list in this post some free IP materials I have developed over time and which students/teachers are very welcome to use also at these challenging times. Here we go: Copyright Linking under EU Copyright Law Right of Communication to the Public – Potential Liability Under Article 3(1) InfoSoc Directive Copyright Infringement Checklist UK Copyright Exceptions Copyright in Europe: Main (potential) life events of a work Article 17 Obligations ... In a Chart (Article 17 DSM Directive) Does the DSM Directive mean the same thing in all language versions? The case of 'best efforts' in Article 17(4)(a) Trade Marks EU/National Trade Marks (TMs): Main Life Events (Potential) Trade Mark Infringement Checklist Online intermediari...

... possibly true Can search engines be ordered to filter  all  results containing certain keywords or a  combination of certain keywords? In a nutshell, this was the issue that the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris (TGI) addressed in the context of litigation between  SNEP   [the French Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing ]   and Microsoft. In its  decision  on 8 July 2016  [this post has been written relying on the original French version of the judgment]  the TGI answered the question above in the negative. Background Claiming that through Microsoft’s search engine Bing users could access infringing copies of phonograms or video recordings, SNEP sought an injunction against Microsoft to implement filters on Bing (under all top level domains) to prevent – for a period of 12 months – the display of results containing in their domain name the word ‘torrent’ and provided when conducting the following queries:  ...