Extending the ASA’s Digital Remit
The Advertising Standards Authority is to take over much greater responsibility for online marketing communications with effect from 1 March 2011….
Publishing & social media
Lord Chief Justice Canute and the Internet
Can you realistically stop a jury from using the Internet?…
Online Defamation: The Need for Digital Corrections
Bob Tarantino emphasises the lesson for online publishers arising from one aspect of the Court of Appeal ruling in Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd…
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Google Wins in Viacom/YouTube Dispute
The judge in the long-running dispute between Viacom and You Tube (now a Google company) has granted Google’s application for summary judgment…
IT Lawyers’ Cases in Brief
Laurence Eastham summarises some of the judgments which have been published in the last two months and which are of interest to IT lawyers….
Digital Music and Online Intermediaries
The Trustees of SCL are delighted to adopt this important contribution to the debate on solutions to the problem of unlawful file-sharing and its effect on copyright holders as an SCL Policy Document. The Document, written by Professor Chris Reed and Berna Akcali Gur, reviews the legal issues surrounding copyright in digital music and the potential liability of ISPs and suggests a move to a long-term solution where access providers pay licence fees to content owners – and users receive the music free of restriction. The Paper is one product of the highly successful SCL Forum, held in September 2009 and hosted and sponsored by Herbert Smith LLP….
Rotten Windows and Government Cuts
This post is about cuts – beginning with my irritation over media attitudes to IT projects (that some politicians seem to reflect), and ending with some speculation about what might be cut that affects IT lawyers….
Olympic Discuss
On discussion and the value of online exchanges of view…
21 Today
No, it’s not the Editor’s birthday, notwithstanding that damnably deceptive youthful look. It is SCL’s Twitter followers who have the key to the door. But what is it the door to?…
Libel, Blogging and Immunity
Clive Freedman reports on a new case that addresses the liability of the operator of a blog with multiple contributors where one of the posts is libellous. To what extent is immunity as an information society service provider available?…