Pablo Cortés outlines the recent proposals for ODR and makes constructive suggestions for improvements which will increase consumer confidence and take-up….
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I’m confused – and it seems to me that everybody else is too. Why is consulting on this porn opt-in idea such an awful idea?…
Some further details on the proposed legislation have become available, and we have initial comments…
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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The latest judgment in the case concerning the blocking of The Pirate Bay sites by UK ISPs has now become available. Notwithstanding widespread mainstream media excitement, the judgment itself was entirely as expected and contains little of note….
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The functionality of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright according to the latest judgment from the ECJ. The purchaser of a licence for a program is entitled, as a rule, to observe, study or test its functioning so as to determine the ideas and principles which underlie that program….
A Welsh health board has become the first NHS organisation to be served a monetary penalty following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act, the Information Commissioner’s Office said on 30 April….
People make mistakes. But some operate in areas where mistakes can cause terrible distress. Howard Sklar explains how the use of computer-assisted review might help the CPS cut down on mistakes. It is a lesson which is obviously of much wider application….
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A review of the Payment Services Directive by the European Commission provides an opportunity for Simon Deane-Johns to clarify its scope by reference to how the major card schemes actually work….
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ACTA’s measures to enforce IP rights in the digital environment could threaten privacy and data protection if not properly implemented according to the European Data Protection Supervisor…