Articles

Lucy Beard/Valérie Budd/Arnd Haller/Marc Schuler/Ingrid Silver/Jörg Wimmers - Harmonization of Copyright Law in the European Community A comparative overview of the implementation of the Copyright Directive(2001/29/EC) in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Hilary Pearson - Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions: Somersault or Change of Legislative Approach? Evaluating the amendments of the draft Directive by the European Parliament and the compromise proposal by the Presidency

Case Law

UK: Jurisdiction in Internet Libel Case Don King v. Lennox Lewis et al. - High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division - judgmentof 6 February 2004

USA: DVD CSS Technology no Trade Secret DVD Copy Control Association Inc. v. Andrew Bunner - Court of Appeal of the State of California - Decision of 27 February 2004

Norway: The DVD Case - Borgarting Appellate Court - Decision of 22 December 2003 - Summary & Comment by Bing

Updates

Don McAleese - Ireland: New Rules for Direct Marketing

Cyril Pierre-Beausse - Luxembourg: Outsourcing, Banks and Secrecy

Angela de Croizant-Brüning - France: Future for Technical Measures Relating to Work of Art Protection?

Enrique J. Batalla - Spain: Notaries as E-Certification Authority

Jacopo Liguori - Italy: Internet and Minors

Kazumasa Soga - Japan: Compensating Employee's Inventions

Stanley Lai - Singapore: Preemptive Measures Against Hacking and Terrorism