• Tommy Album Rørvik Senior Associate - on leave of absence
    Amund Brede Svendsen Partner

    No copyright protection for Come Dine With Me television format

    03/02/2011

    ITV Studios Ltd (ITV S) and its affiliate ITV Global Entertainment Ltd (ITV G), an international distributor and licensor of television formats, together with Viasat and Swedish production and distribution company Silverback AB, held rights to the television format for programme Come Dine with Me.The first programme was broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in 2005 and was followed by nine seasons on Channel 4 until 2009.

  • Jarle Roar Sæbø Partner

    Centrebet PTY Ltd sued in Norway - Supreme Court Approves

    20/10/2010

    Mr Bjarte Baasland used various internet based betting services for a number of years, and in the end he had accumulated a total loss of approximately 7,5 million Euros. Centrebet was one of two services he used the most, and in 2009 he initiated legal proceedings against the Australian company. Mr Baasland claims that he was a gaming addict and that Centrebet should have stopped his gaming and should not have enticed him to further gaming. The legal proceedings were initiated in Norway, and Centrebet asked the court for a dismissal, claiming that Norway was not an applicable legal venue. Both the City Court and the Appeal Court accepted Centrebet's argument and wanted to dismiss the case. However, the Supreme Court turned it all around, and Centrebet will now be part of legal proceedings before Norwegian courts.

  • Jarle Roar Sæbø Partner

    Open Source Code in Mergers and Acquisitions

    12/10/2010

    The use of open source code is growing every day, and in some sectors the use of such code has exceeded all reasonable expectations. As always, such “new” phenomena provide both opportunities and challenges. The latter includes the many pitfalls that open source code generates in business takeover situations.

  • Jarle Roar Sæbø Partner

    Digitisation and online accessibility of Europe’s cultural heritage

    30/08/2010

    The Commission’s Reflection Group on Digitisation, established in April 2010, has now launched its consultation and seeks views on how to boost the online presence of Europe’s cultural heritage. The purpose is to speed up the online accessibility and preservation of cultural works across Europe.

  • Jarle Roar Sæbø Partner

    Åsne Seierstad ordered to pay compensation to the bookseller's wife

    02/08/2010

    Åsne Seierstad’s international bestseller, The Bookseller of Kabul, portrays an Afghan bookseller and his family, and tells the story of a patriarch society were men are considered superior to women. In 2002 Seierstad was invited to live with the bookseller and his family. During a family dinner Seierstad said to herself “This is Afghanistan. How interesting it would be to write a book about this family”. This dinner and the emerging idea are described in the book’s opening. From a legal point of view it is of course relevant that Seierstad claimed to be portraying an actual family. The book was based on Seierstad’s many conversations and discussions with the bookseller and his family during her stay.

  • Øystein Flagstad Partner

    Supreme Court finds something fishy in nudity scene broadcast

    18/05/2010

    On 25th March 2010 the Supreme Court ruled against NRK, the Norwegian state broadcaster NRK, in a lawsuit initiated by Norwegian actress Gørild Mauseth.

  • Øystein Flagstad Partner

    Email Marketing in Norway

    08/02/2010

    While not being a member of the European Union (EU), Norway is bound to implement most EU legislation - including the e-Privacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC) and the e-Commerce Directive (Directive 2000/31/EC) - by the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement. The e-Privacy Directive's provisions on email marketing were implemented into the previous Norwegian Marketing Act, with effect from 1 February 2005. With effect from 1 June 2009, the provisions on email marketing passed to § 15 of the new Norwegian Marketing Act, without material changes.

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