DYNAMIC BLOCKING INJUNCTIONS – II LATEST APPROACHES IN GREECE & ASIA

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Dynamic blocking injunctions – the latest approaches in Europe. A new challenge

The rise in illegal online activities and especially in the consumption of copyright protected content which has been boosted by the COVID-19 pandemic made it even more urgent to leverage existing legal remedies and adapt them further to strengthen the fight against audiovisual piracy in the digital era.

Such remedies include, among others, website blocking injunctions, Domain Name systems (DNS) blocking and Internet Protocol (IP) blocking.

Blocking injunctions find their legal basis in Article 18(1) of the e-commerce Directive. The compatibility of blocking injunctions with EU law has been confirmed by a number of Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgments, which also support the availability of dynamic blocking injunctions.

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