Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Universal City Studios Productions Lllp and Others v British Telecommunications Plc

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeTHE HON MR JUSTICE ARNOLD,MR JUSTICE ARNOLD
Judgment Date26 October 2011
Neutral Citation[2011] EWHC 1981 (Ch),[2011] EWHC 2714 (Ch)
Docket NumberCase No: HC10C04385
CourtChancery Division
Date26 October 2011

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  • Dramatico Entertainment Ltd and Others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 20 February 2012
    ...access by their customers to a peer-to-peer ("P2P") file-sharing website called The Pirate Bay ("TPB"). 2 In Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp v British Telecommunications plc [2011] EWHC 1981 (Ch), [2011] RPC 28 (" 20C Fox v BT") I held that the Court had jurisdiction, and that it was appro......
  • Dramatico Entertainment Ltd and Others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 2 May 2012
    ...Publishers Association, UK Interactive Entertainment and the Producers' Alliance for Cinema and Television. 2 In Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp v British Telecommunications plc [2011] EWHC 1981 (Ch), [2011] RPC 28 (" 20C Fox v BT") I held that the Court had jurisdiction, and that it was ......
  • EMI Records (Ireland) Ltd and Others v Data Protection Commissioner
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 3 July 2013
    ... [2001] 4 IR 203; Teahan v Minister for Communications [2008] IEHC 194, (Unrep, Laffoy J, 18/6/2008); Twentieth Century Fox v BT [2011] EWHC 1981 (Ch), [2012] 1 All ER 806; Twentieth Century Fox v Newzbin [2010] EWHC 608 (Ch), [2010] IP & T 1122 and X v Flynn (Unrep, Costello J, 19/5/1994) ......
  • Cartier International AG v British Sky Broadcasting
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 17 October 2014
    ...I have considered the principles to be applied to applications of that kind in a series of judgments: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp v British Telecommunications plc [2011] EWHC 1981 (Ch), [2012] Bus LR 1471 (" 20C Fox v BT"); Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp v British Telecommunications p......
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11 firm's commentaries
  • IP Bulletin - September 2011
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 22 September 2011
    ...Court – ISP to block access to Newzbin website Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and others v British Telecommunications plc, [2011] EWHC 1981 (Ch), Arnold J, 28 July The High Court has ordered that BT take measures to block access to the Newzbin website. The applicants were well-known......
  • Site Blocking Orders Come To Canada: GoldTV.biz
    • Canada
    • Mondaq Canada
    • 25 November 2019
    ...increases in costs may have a dissuasive or deterrent effect (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v British Telecommunications PLC [2011] EWHC 1981(Ch) at para The substitution factor requires consideration of whether the blocked websites may be replaced or substituted by another infringing we......
  • High Court Orders ISPs To Block Access To File-Sharing
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 12 July 2012
    ...users of the ISP's services. He held that they were proportionate, on similar grounds to those in the earlier case of 20C Fox v BT [2011] EWHC 1981 (Ch) (concerning the blocking of the Newzbin file sharing website), in which Arnold J found that the rights of Claimant under Article 1 of the ......
  • Meeting Halfway: The Increasing Role Of Intermediaries In Protecting UK Intellectual Property Rights Online
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 15 December 2014
    ...UK High Court exercised this jurisdiction against ISPs was in 2011 in the case of Twentieth Century Fox v British Telecommunications Plc [2011] EWHC 1981 ("2C Fox"). An important aspect of the judgment was the finding that the knowledge requirement of section 97A should not be interpreted t......
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9 books & journal articles
  • The Localization of Ip Infringements in the Online Environment: from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and the Metaverse
    • United Kingdom
    • Oxford University Press Books and Journals Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice No. 18-10, 2023
    • 8 September 2023
    ...Handbook of EU Copyright Law (Routledge 2021) 361–362.142.Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp & Ors v British Telecommunications Plc [2011] EWHC 1981 (Ch) (28 July 2011).143.Respectively, Capitol Records & Ors v British Telecommunications Plc & Ors [2021] EWHC 409 (Ch) (25 February 2021) and Yo......
  • No More Mere Conduit? Abandoning Net Neutrality and Its Possible Consequences on Internet Service Providers' Content Liability
    • United States
    • Wiley The Journal of World Intellectual Property No. 16-1-2, March 2013
    • 1 March 2013
    ...Case C&360/10, SABAM v Netlog NV [2012] 2 CMLR.16. See for example Twentieth Century Fox and others v British Telecommunications plc [2011] EWHC 1981 (Ch)[2011] RPC 28.17. BoR 12(31), 42, paragraph 195.18. See also BoR 12(31) 41–42, paragraphs 191–194.19. A very similar argument was made al......
  • Les droits privés à l'ére numérique
    • Ireland
    • Irish Judicial Studies Journal No. 2-18, July 2018
    • 1 July 2018
    ...personnel joue un rôle fondamental pour l’exercice du droit au respect de la vie privée et familiale consacré par l’article 8 14 [2011] EWHC 2714 (Ch) Arnold J 15 pourvoi n 16-17.217. [2018] Irish Judicial Studies Journal Vol 2(2) 50 IRISH JUDICIAL STUDIES JOURNAL de la Convention.’ 16 La C......
  • The Freedom of Expression Contours of Copyright in the Digital Era: A European Perspective
    • United States
    • Wiley The Journal of World Intellectual Property No. 19-3-4, July 2016
    • 1 July 2016
    ...(supranote 11), paragraph 28. See also, on the national level, TwentiethCentury Fox Film Corp & Ors vBritish Telecommunications Plc [2011] EWHC 1981 (Ch) (28 July 2011), paragraphs 185–6; Maritimeand Commercial Court in Copenhagen, Fritz Hansen A/S and Others v Telia Danmark, no. A-38-14,11......
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