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On 17 February 2011 the General Court of the European Union issued its ruling in cases T-385/07 and T-68/08 (FIFA v Commission) and case T-55/08 (UEFA v Commission). The cases involved the list of events of major importance for society submitted by the United Kingdom and Belgium to the Commission. The two organisations sought to annul the approving decision of the Commission. Article 3a(1) of the Television without Frontiers Directive (now replaced by Article 14 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive) allows Member States to prohibit the exclusive broadcasting of events they judge to be of...

On 3 February 2011 Advocate General Juliane Kokott delivered her opinion in cases C- 403/08 and C-429/08. Both cases involve the import of decoder cards from Greece into the United Kingdom in attempts to circumvent the exclusivity agreements concluded between the UK’s Football Association Premier League (FAPL) and the broadcasters to whom the FAPL grants the right to broadcast matches. By using a Greek decoder card, pubs in the UK are able to show the live transmission of Premier League football matches at more favourable rates then those offered by broadcasters in the UK. In an attempt to squash...

Ten years ago, in 2001, the newspaper Daily Mirror published an article on its front page under the title: “Naomi: I am a drug addict”. Another longer article inside the newspaper elaborated on top model Naomi Campbell’s addiction treatment, illustrated by photos taken secretly near the Narcotics Anonymous centre she was attending at the time. As the newspaper continued to publish more articles and new pictures related to her attendance at Narcotics Anonymous, Ms. Campbell sued the Daily Mirror for breach of her privacy. At a final stage of the domestic proceedings, the House...

Football Dataco, the “official, general licensing website, for the 4 professional football leagues in the United Kingdom” compiles and maintains football match data in a database called “Football Live”. It is a “live” database and comprises information from UK football matches, such as goals scored, penalties, yellow and red cards and substitutions. Sportsradar is a German company, owned by a Swiss holding company. It also operates a live sports data service, “Sports Live Data”, with the material held on servers hosted in Germany and Austria. It is both accessible from the UK and made available...

In June 2010 News Corporation offered to purchase the remaining 60.9% of shares which it did not already own in BSkyB, the leading British and Irish pay-TV operator. This bid has been considered on competition grounds by the European Commission and on public interest grounds relating to media plurality by the UK authorities. The European Commission cleared the proposed acquisition on competition grounds. It found that it would result in only a small increment on BSkyB’s existing share of the market for the supply of basic pay-TV channels and that the parties have only a small combined market share...