http://www.olswang.com/ Olswang Solicitors - Legal News in the Technology, Media, Telecommunications and Real Estate Sectors Olswang, 90 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6XX. Tel +44 (0)20 7067 3000 Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) http://www.olswang.com/images/logo_h.gif http://www.olswang.com/ 15 December 2011 - Advocate-General Mengozzi has today delivered his Opinion on questions referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union in relation to the subsistence of database copyright in football fixture lists. This non-binding Opinion addresses the application of the Database Directive (Directive 96/9/EC) and argues that the Claimants' claim that database copyright subsists in the fixture lists for the Premier and other football leagues should be rejected. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3653 2011-12-15 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 07 December 2011 - In this update we report on recent developments across Europe, including the news that the Austrian government has controversially re-awarded the state gambling monopoly to the incumbent. Our second story provides the most recent update on the situation concerning the adoption of the new Interstate Treaty on gambling in Germany. We also report on the continuing saga in Greece, the latest development being the filing of a state aid complaint in connection with the government's treatment of OPAP, and provide an overview of some of the proposed legislative changes in Ireland. Finally, we report on the decision of the Israeli authorities to sanction foreign companies providing online gambling services. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3648 2011-12-07 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 07 December 2011 - There have been some changes and developments in the Spanish gambling market and regulatory framework since we published our last update on the country in June. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3647 2011-12-07 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 07 December 2011 - On 15 November 2011, the European Parliament voted in favour of a Report on online gambling in the Internal Market (the "<strong>Report</strong>") prepared by the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection which was chaired by German MEP, Jürgen Creutzmann. The Committee's investigation ran in parallel to the European Commission's Green Paper consultation and collected views from across the gambling sector. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3646 2011-12-07 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 07 December 2011 - In our September update, we reported on the Treasury's consultation to introduce a "place of consumption basis for betting duty whereby gambling operators, wherever located, would pay UK betting duty on bets placed by UK customers". Responses to that consultation were due by 30 November. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3645 2011-12-07 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 07 December 2011 - The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has confirmed a European Commission decision from 2004 that found that proposed arrangements by Gibraltar for levying corporation tax constituted illegal state aid. The ECJ judgment overrules an earlier judgment by the Court of First Instance (now known as the General Court), which had annulled the Commission's decision. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3644 2011-12-07 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 07 December 2011 - October 2011 saw the launch of a new lottery in the UK called the "Health Lottery". Established by Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell, owner of Channel 5 and publisher of newspapers and magazines such as the Daily Express, Daily Star and OK!, it has been heavily promoted in the national press, with the weekly draw - for which the top prize is advertised as being up to &pound;100,000 - televised live every Saturday night on Channel 5. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3643 2011-12-07 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 07 December 2011 - As is usually the case, the 51st Levy Scheme was agreed by the Levy Board in the final few hours of 31 October, the statutory deadline for agreeing a scheme. Neither the bookmakers nor racing would have wanted the scheme to be referred for determination by the Secretary of State, whose patience would have been tried even further following his need to intervene to settle the terms of the current 50th Scheme. The scheme proposed by the bookmakers was approved by a 4-3 majority with the three Government appointed members of the Board siding with the Chairman of the Bookmaker's Committee. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3642 2011-12-07 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 07 December 2011 - On 7 November 2011, Ofcom found that Supercasino Extra ("<strong>SCXtra</strong>"), a half-hour segment broadcast on behalf of gambling service Supercasino (operated by Netplay TV Group Ltd ("<strong>Netplay</strong>")) on Channel 5 had breached the Code on the Scheduling of Television Advertising ("<strong>COSTA</strong>"). http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3641 2011-12-07 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 07 December 2011 - We include a summary of recent news from the Gambling Commission and Department of Media Culture and Sport. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3640 2011-12-07 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 02 November 2011 - On 27 October 2011, 15 of the 16 heads of the German states agreed on a new Interstate Treaty on Gambling. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3617 2011-11-02 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 12 October 2011 - Olswang has advised Sportingbet Plc (Sportingbet), a leading online sports betting and gaming group, on the entry by its wholly owned subsidiaries http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3609 2011-10-12 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 11 October 2011 - Last week's European Court judgment in relation to broadcasting Premier League football in pubs aroused a lot of controversy and comment, much of it misguided. The focus of the judgment is the limitation placed by EU law on attempts to ensure territorial exclusivity, i.e. whether a rights-holder can require its licensee in one EU country not to broadcast content into another EU country, and viewers' rights to receive broadcasts cross-border (Premier League matches broadcast by a Greek broadcaster in the case before the court). http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3603 2011-10-11 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 21 September 2011 - Some other recent news from the Gambling sector. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3589 2011-09-20 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com) 21 September 2011 - With the 2012 Olympics in London less than a year away, the Government has proposed changes to the Gambling Act 2005 ("Act"), with the aim of preventing event-fixing at the Olympics. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport's Consultation proposes that various national and international sporting governing bodies, in particular the International Olympic Committee ("IOC"), be given greater ability under the Act to receive and share information with the Gambling Commission. http://www.olswang.com/newsarticle.asp?sid=110&aid=3588 2011-09-20 Articles Olswang (mailto:olsmail@olswang.com)