Legal News (Commercial & Business)

The Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Act 2019 (“the Act”) was signed into law by the President on 26 June 2019. The Act amends the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 and introduces certain recommendations of the Copyright Review Committee from their 2013 Report.

Recently, Tusla has begun for the first time to maintain a publicly available register of organisations and businesses which are not in compliance with the obligation under the 2015 Act to maintain a Child Safeguarding Statement.

With the aim of making European copyright laws “fit for the digital age”, the European Parliament recently passed Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market.

Welcome to our Summer Newsletter, which we hope you find helpful and interesting. It has been a busy few months here at Hayes. We recently announced the promotion of two new partners – Áine Coghill in our Property department and Katy Meade in our Healthcare department.

In many countries, parties to a contract have an implied duty of good faith to one another. This can have wide-ranging consequences - it may require a duty of candour / disclosure and moral and ethical standards in the parties' behaviour.

The Court of Appeal earlier this year re-examined the tort of “passing off” in the case of Galway Free Range Eggs Limited (“Appellant”) v O’Brien & Ors (“Respondents”) [2019] IECA 8.