The Culture Factor
the most important habit is the one displayed so well in Japanese culture – respect…
Intellectual Property
File-sharing and Norwich Pharmacal: Court Supervision of Letter of Claim
The High Court has made a Norwich Pharmacal order in favour of Golden Eye and Ben Dover Productions in a preliminary move towards volume file-sharing litigation. But Arnold J has applied a number of stringent conditions affecting the further pursuit of the action and has insisted upon a number of amendments to the draft letter of claim….
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Online Defamation in UK: No Clarification from Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has published its judgment in the case of Flood v The Times, a libel case which included allegations of online defamation. But the judgments deal only with Reynolds privilege….
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Google Privacy Policy: CNIL Request for Clarifications
The Article 29 Working Party has sought response from Google to a series of pertinent questions about its new privacy policy. The questionnaire is revealing in that it points to the widening nature of the data protection concerns….
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Connect, Engage and Interact with Social Media
Kim Tasso offers 7 firm-wide and 11 personal points to help successfully integrate social media into marketing, selling and relationship management programmes…
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Social Media: Hidden IP Dangers
Alastair Cox and Iona Harding examine the intellectual property pitfalls associated with everyday uses of social media….
OFT Action on Groupon Breaches
The OFT has accepted undertakings from ‘daily deals’ company MyCityDeal Ltd, which trades as Groupon, to change some of its trading practices following an OFT investigation….
The DSM and the Need for a Digital Magna Carta
Rene Summer suggests that we need an action-plan to embrace digitization of creativity in the digital single market and a statement of inviolable digital liberties…
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Police Pay Penalty
The Information Commissioner has imposed a monetary penalty on Lancashire Police….
Goodbye Godfrey, Hello Tamiz
Graham Smith offers some thought-provoking reflections on the judgment in the recent Google libel case and considers its importance for online defamation claims. This article is taken from his Cyberleagle blog at www.cyberleagle.com….