Internet Libel and Amazon’s Immunity
A recent Internet libel case highlights the extensive reach of ‘immunity’ for information services providers. Laurence Eastham attempts to pick out the more interesting aspects of a 99-paragraph judgment….
Telecoms & the Internet
EU Commission Consultation on Internet of Things
The EU Commission has launched a consultation on rules for wirelessly connected devices – the ‘Internet of Things’…
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Roofers, Hamlet and T&Cs
Are big companies playing fair when they ask us to sign up to immensely complicated T&Cs online?…
Football Dataco: No Database Copyright Protection for Fixture Lists
David Cran and Paul Joseph consider the ECJ judgment in Football Dataco v Yahoo! and its likely impact…
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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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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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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….
BT/TalkTalk: Always an Unappealing Appeal
Carl Gardner writes on the rejected appeal by BT and TalkTalk over the Digital Economy Act’s impact on ISPs. This article is taken from his timely blog post on the always stimulating Head of Legal blog: www.headoflegal.com…
User-generated Content and Defamation: New Judgment re Google’s Blogger.com
The High Court has given answers to some of the questions concerning liability for online defamation arising from alleged libel in comments attached to a post on Google’s Blogger.com. Was Google a publisher? Was it protected by the Defamation Act and/or the E-commerce Directive? Laurence Eastham summarises key points from the judgment….
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