The pool for domain names may well increase dramatically by late 2011 with the introduction of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) and a variety of different generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). These developments will undoubtedly drive changes in businesses’ online reputation strategy and management. Nick Wenban-Smith explains the proposed new landscape and outlines how businesses can prepare for this imminent arrival of new domains….
Laurence Eastham summarises some of the judgments which have been published in the last two months and which are of interest to IT lawyers….
The Court of Justice has considered the revocation of .eu domain name registrations and evidence of bad faith in registration…
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The Trustees of SCL are delighted to adopt this important contribution to the debate on solutions to the problem of unlawful file-sharing and its effect on copyright holders as an SCL Policy Document. The Document, written by Professor Chris Reed and Berna Akcali Gur, reviews the legal issues surrounding copyright in digital music and the potential liability of ISPs and suggests a move to a long-term solution where access providers pay licence fees to content owners – and users receive the music free of restriction. The Paper is one product of the highly successful SCL Forum, held in September 2009 and hosted and sponsored by Herbert Smith LLP….
Google has mistakenly been collecting wi-fi data in the course of its Street View data collection exercise. What’s it going to do about it?…
Susan Barty and Lucy Kilshaw report on a High Court ruling of 24 April which held that football fixture lists can be protected by copyright and which makes interesting reading for those interested in the database right….
No, it’s not the Editor’s birthday, notwithstanding that damnably deceptive youthful look. It is SCL’s Twitter followers who have the key to the door. But what is it the door to?…
Julia Hörnle reports on the Court of Justice judgment in the Google AdWords case but questions whether the judgment gives quite as much freedom to Google as some have suggested….
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The High Court has found that a company which indexes and collates media files is liable for authorising infringement. The judgment casts an interesting light on the role of many service providers who claim to be merely passive elements in the copyright infringement process and ‘content agnostic’….
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An action for libel was struck out where the original article was archived and could be read only in the context of later pieces which removed any sting. Moreover, it was held that a publisher could not be liable if a Google search snippet was defamatory when the original material from which it was derived was not….
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