Nominet and .uk
On 20 November, Nominet announced updates on a range of new initiatives and projects….
Telecoms & the Internet
Nominet Consultations and Mince Pies
Nominet is going ahead with its plans for shorter domain names, although a consultation appears to have produced a two-thirds majority against. I am sure that they wanted it realIy….
SCL Meeting Report: ‘Online Advertising Masterclass: Display, Data, Search and Social’.
On 6 November 2013, Bristows LLP hosted the latest session organised by the SCL Media Group which proved extremely popular. The session covered various aspects of online advertising and was chaired by Paul Jordan, head of the advertising team at Bristows. Sacha Wilson, an associate at Bristows, reports on the session….
Google go down in Paris: How did it come to this?
Dominic Crossley gives his view of the recent judgment of the Tribunal de Grande Instance on a claim brought by Max Mosley against Google, relating to certain images available on a Google Images search…
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Data Protection Monetary Penalties: Absolutely Criminal?
In the space of little more than eight weeks, the Information Rights Tribunal has recently quashed two ‘Civil Monetary Penalties’ totalling £550,000. Paul Motion and Laura Irvine consider the decisions and argue that such Monetary Penalties are properly categorised as criminal, with significant consequences for both the Information Commissioner and a data controller under investigation for a data protection breach. See also the authors’ article ‘Cake or Death?’…
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Data Protection Regulation: Is it On or Off?
Dr Chris Pounder speculates on the likely fate of the EU plans for data protection reform…
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First New Generic Top-Level Domains Delegated
ICANN has announced that the new gTLD program is underway…
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SCL Annual Conference 2013 Report: In a Few Words
David Chaplin reports on the SCL Annual Conference 2013, ‘All the IT Law you need for 2014’…
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Run Down by a Hype Cycle
I am rather late to Gartner’s hype cycle for 2013 but it is all a bit frightening for those pedestrians among us who are struggling to keep up. I have some sympathetic suggestions for IT lawyers….
Augmented Reality Too
Joanne Frears continues her series of articles on aspects of augmented reality, based on her experiences of advising some of the most cutting-edge of AR providers…