Cases

FA Premier League Ltd v QC Leisure & Ors

Held

Referring the issue to the European Court of Justice (questions to be formulated):

The use by broadcasting organisations of encryption techniques to prevent access to programmes without payment, and to prevent access to those programmes to viewers outside of specified territories even if they are willing to pay, created a tension with the concept of a Community audiovisual area and the principles of an internal market without frontiers. This raised serious policy questions of the greatest importance to the European single market. A reference to the ECJ at this point would be quicker and cheaper than allowing the matter to go to appeal.

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