Since an undertaking could register its trade marks as .eu domain names during the ‘sunrise period’ only if it was established in the EU, it was not right to allow that rule to be subverted where a very limited licence had been granted to an EU entity….
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A Parliamentary Inquiry has concluded that ISPs need to be more pro-active in encouraging the protection of children from accessing harmful content…
Read More… from Report of Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection
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….
The EU Commission has launched a consultation on rules for wirelessly connected devices – the ‘Internet of Things’…
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Are big companies playing fair when they ask us to sign up to immensely complicated T&Cs online?…
David Cran and Paul Joseph consider the ECJ judgment in Football Dataco v Yahoo! and its likely impact…
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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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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….
Read More… from Google Privacy Policy: CNIL Request for Clarifications
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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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….