Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v The Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd & Ors [2013] UKSC 18

Henry has been involved in this long running dispute concerning end user licenses in relation to internet articles collated by the Newspaper Licensing Agency. Most recently he appeared in behalf of NLA at the appeal before the Supreme Court. The court was asked to consider the scope of the temporary copying exception to copyright infringement introduced by Article 5.1 of Directive 2001/29/EC. The question for the court was whether the copies of a webpage made on a person’s hard-drive and screen during browsing the internet fell within the exception to infringement.

The Court held that such use would not amount to copyright infringement. The court considered that this was an important issue not only to UK internet users and so made a reference to the European Court of Justice to ensure a uniform application of the law throughout the EU.

 [2013] UKSC 18

Various claimants v News Group Newspapers

The voicemail interception litigation arising from the activities of journalists at the News of the World and the investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, which has been going on since 2008.  There are many interlocutory clashes (see for example [2012] EWHC 397 (Ch)) and the trial of tranche 2 of the claims, which was due to be heard in February 2013 has now been put back to later in the year.

Ate My Heart Inc (AKA Lady GaGa) v Mind Candy [2011] EWHC 2741 (Ch)

Ate My Heart Inc (AKA Lady GaGa) claim for trade mark infringement.  Ate My Heart obtained an interim injunction restraining the creators of Moshi Monsters from proceeding with a heavily publicised launch of a single by a parody character.