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The Court however, observed that the owners can be ordered to protect it with a password to prevent further infringements. The copyright infringement\u00a0case was brought by Sony Music against a shopkeeper in the District Court in Munich, Germany which referred the same to the ECJ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credit: <em>The Wall Street Journal <\/em>(blog)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in The Wall Street Journal,\u00a0\u00a0the European Court of Justice has held that the owners of shops or businesses providing WiFi <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":71611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8051,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business_news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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