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In a legal action between the broadcasting company, RTL/De Holland Media Groep S.A. (RTL/HMG), on one side and a Dutch actor and the production company, Endemol, on the other, the District Court of Amsterdam ruled on 11 April 2002 that an actor, contractually bound to RTL/HMG, was not in breach of contract for starring in a drama series of a rival television station. Additionally, the Court found that Endemol, the producer of the series, had not acted unlawfully towards RTL/HMG by creating a series featuring the actor in question. Two contracts existed between RTL/HMG and the actor: one contract...

In its judgment of 29 November 2001, the District Court of Amsterdam ordered a shut-down of the activities of Kazaa and decided as well that Buma/Stemra (the Dutch music-rights organisation) should continue negotiations with Kazaa over a worldwide streaming-licence for the music of the Buma/Stemra members (see IRIS 2002-1: 13). Following this judgment, both parties involved, Kazaa and Buma/Stemra, decided to take their case to a higher court. The President of the District Court had ruled that Kazaa had violated the Dutch Copyright Act by enabling its users to download music with the aid of Kazaa...

An Internet Provider can refuse the sender of unsolicited commercial e-mail (also known as spam) the use of its transport facilities, because it does not have a universal service-connected legal duty to deliver. This was the judgment of the President of the Court of Amsterdam in the first-ever spam case in the Netherlands on 7 March 2002. XS4All, a Dutch Internet Provider, had applied for a temporary injunction. The injunction was sought against AbFab, a Dutch marketing company, which had sent unsolicited commercial e-mail messages to a number of XS4All subscribers. After receiving complaints...

By its decision of 15 February 2002, the Vlaams Commissariaat voor de Media (Flemish Media Authority) has decided to recognise the SBS-broadcasting station VT4 as a Flemish broadcasting organisation. From 1 March 2002, VT4 will operate under the Flemish Broadcasting Act 1995. VT4's licence from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) in the United Kingdom also ceased to be valid on 1 March 2002. Until recently, VT4, as a British broadcaster with its programmes targeting the Flemish Community, was operating with an ITC licence in accordance with the UK Broadcasting Act. Since February 1995,...

On 29 November 2001, the District Court of Amsterdam ordered a shutdown of the activities of Kazaa in the course of interlocutory proceedings. Kazaa is one of the recent peer-to-peer (P2P) programs enabling users to share computer files over the Internet. The Court also ordered Buma/Stemra, the Dutch music-rights organisation, to continue negotiations with Kazaa over a worldwide streaming-licence for the music of Buma/Stemra members. Kazaa accused Buma/Stemra of breaking off the negotiations at an advanced stage. Buma/Stemra in turn asked the Court to order Kazaa to take appropriate measures to...