Google Spain: A Question of (Lack of) Balance
Steve Peers believes that the CJEU’s Google Spain judgment fails to balance privacy and freedom of expression…
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Telecoms & the Internet
Google Spain: A Search Engine Liability Explosion?
The CJEU has ruled that an Internet search engine operator can be responsible for the processing that it carries out of personal data which appears on web pages published by third parties. This may be the practical embodiment of the ‘right to be forgotten’. The case also provides important new guidance on jurisdictional issues and the scope of EU data protection….
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Finding an unAPI Medium
The latest ruling in California on the protection for IP rights in APIs has worrying consequences…
Are Bitcoins Really Real?
David Flint considers the practicalities, the legalities and realities around the hype over virtual currencies….
Data Retention: About Haystacks and Needles?
Dr Julia Hornle analyses the recent major judgment of the CJEU, which declared the Data Retention Directive to be invalid…
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SCL Event Report: Apps within Law Firms
Claire Andrews and Lucy Dillon report on the SCL KM Group meeting of 25 February 2014…
Time Machine for Sale
Stunning new technology is now available on the SCL web site…
Nominet Policy Changes
Nominet has announced policy changes that it describes as formalising its approach to tackling criminal activity on .uk domains but which also deals with domain names associated with sexual offences…
EU Court of Justice Lays Down Rules for Copyright Site Blocking Injunctions
Graham Smith offers his take on the CJEU decision in UPC Telekabel v Constantin Film…
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Book Review: Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law
Matthew Lavy, Richard Osborne and Gideon Shirazi of 4 Pump Court combine to provide a detailed review of the latest edition of Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law, Bainbridge, 6th Ed, Bloomsbury 2014, 700 pp, £130 (but see dscount offer atthe end of this review), ISBN 9781-1-78043-1246…
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