Author: Kevin Coates

Translation Protocols In Cross-Border Antitrust Litigation

From Law360: Competition: Translation Protocols In Cross-Border Antitrust Litigation “In civil antitrust litigations in U.S. courts, the increasing presence of foreign parties raises numerous issues relating to the translation and use of foreign-language documents. The current evidentiary rules are useful for cases in which parties use a few foreign-language documents, but those rules are poorly equipped for the realities of modern antitrust litigation, which often features thousands of emails and other electronics documents written in languages other than English, say Lee Berger and Sophie Sung of Paul Hastings LLP.”

Monopoly and Anti Trust Law: Its Development and Significance

From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Monopoly and Anti Trust Law: Its Development and Significance “Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Abhay Upadhyay, Gujarat National Law University and Sujoy Sur, Gujarat National Law University analyze Monopoly and Anti Trust Law: Its Development and Significance. ABSTRACT: This project tries to trace the development of anti-trust laws globally…”

Does embedding require permission?

“ Is there a better way to start a new week than with a new copyright case being referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)?  The answer is most probably ‘no’ when such a reference for a preliminary ruling concerns the trendy right of communication to the public. This is Case C-348/13 BestWater International, a reference from the German Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice) seeking clarification as to the following: “Does the embedding, within one’s own website, of another person’s work made available to the public on a third-party website, in circumstances such as those in the main proceedings [can any German readers provide more background information?], constitute communication to the public within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/29/EC, even […]