A decision that football fans can use foreign decoder cards other implications for copyright, but the new rules may replace the old

One of the things the author has traditionally allowed business owners - the media and entertainment, vendors, etc. - to do is to isolate the domestic market and manipulate prices for access products protected by copyright under national borders.

The ability to do that always struck me as bizarre in the context of a "common market" as the European Union, but then the idea of ??a common market does not share a common law is a strange idea itself.

This does not mean that there have been efforts to harmonize this area of ??law. There are a number of policies that directly or indirectly related copyright and its operation in the European Union, but the deep divisions between national systems have great potential for national change has been preserved.

several pieces, both basic and secondary schools in the puzzle of copyright in Europe are considered in the case of the owner of the now famous British pub, Karen Murphy, who fought against attempts to prevent the sample satellite broadcasts of the Premier League in his bar with a decoder card Greece.

Use of this decoder cancels European market partitioning of national markets and brought, of all things, price competition between national markets.

The clearest implications of the case, beyond the specific problem of satellite broadcasting of live events, the author refers to offerings on the Internet. Different conditions of access to these products in conjunction with, for example, price or limitations imposed by digital rights management - or even the fact that these assets are not available in some Member States -. It could be a thing of the past

However, as often happens with copyright, a relaxation of certain restrictions can only invite new. The focus of the opinion of Advocate General was on the prevention of market segmentation by the copyright holders. She made it clear that the score as absent, there was no reason to prevent, for example, restrictions on satellite broadcasts shows in bars.