Emma Lenthall and Rebecca Harman-Wilson look at contempt of court and the real risks that face website operators as publishers of infringing material….
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The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has published its Opinion on data protection issues related to search engines…
On 4 April, the ICO released a statement on Phorm and the IFPR’s call to investigate the controversial use of its technology by ISPs. But there is still ongoing criticism of the system…
A new statement from WIPO suggests that there are real problems with the domain name registration system and widespread abuse of the system….
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A press release from Bird & Bird reveals that the firm has been involved in successfully defending Yahoo! UK Ltd and its sister company, Overture Services Ltd (trading under the name ‘Yahoo! Search Marketing’), in what it describes as a groundbreaking trade mark infringement case concerning keywords and sponsored search results. The case was brought…