Pihl v Sweden: Liability for Comments
Dirk Voorhoof recounts the facts and judgment in Pihl and comments on the findings of the European Court of Human Rights and the potential for restrictions on internet freedoms…
Telecoms & the Internet
Don’t argos.com it, argos.co.uk it
Richard Ferguson looks at a recent High Court dispute surrounding the use of the Argos domain name and the complications that the use of a common trading name might create…
Algorithms and the Rule of Law
Rónán Kennedy explores fundamental issues surrounding the use of algorithms…
SAP v Diageo and Limits on Licences
Andrew Crystal and Eliot Henderson cover a significant ruling for software customers and providers, in which the High Court found that Diageo breached the ‘Named User’ pricing mechanism of its software licence agreement with SAP….
Online Defamatory Comments and Balancing Rights
The European Court of Human Rights has held that a refusal to hold the owner of a blog liable for a defamatory anonymous online comment did not violate the ECHR…
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Privacy and mHealth Apps: EU Draft Code of Conduct
Pearse Ryan, Colin Rooney and Hugh McCarthy take a careful look at the key features of the European Commission’s draft code of conduct on privacy for mobile health applications…
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A Call to Regulate Frankenstein
Falk Schoening, Rod Freeman and Sebastian Polly consider the European Parliament’s call for new rules for robots…
Sextech: Sticky Legal Issues?
Neil Brown offers some initial thoughts on a topic which you probably haven’t thought too much about yet….
Case Report: Argos in a Small World
A recent High Court judgment in a case concerning infringement of trade marks and alleged passing off raises novel issues of wider importance…
When Neighbours Fall Out: The DPA Twist
Martin Sloan and Leigh Gapinski consider a recent case where the court awarded £17,000 in damages for breaches of the DPA in relation to domestic CCTV…