First PCC Censure for a Blog Post
The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint about an entry by Rod Liddle in his blog for the Spectator….
Intellectual Property
Copyright Infringement and Intermediaries: Twentieth Century Fox v Newzbin
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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Newzbin and the Digital Economy Bill
Members of the Motion Picture Association had a big win in the High Court this week. And then asked themselves an interesting question….
Internet Libel: Archive, Context and Snippets
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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Subjected to Contract
Mark Lewis reports and comments on an important Supreme Court judgment on contract, where the Court was asked ‘when is a subject to contract agreement a binding contract?’…
Outsourcing IT: The Governance Challenge
Rupert Kendrick argues that organisations that fail to apply governance principles in the management of IT outsourcing projects are inviting project failure. His words of wisdom are likely to strike a chord with outsourcing lawyers whose clients have overlooked these principles. But they may be of equal interest to law firms considering any element of outsourcing….
Does Your Firewall Have an Open Door?
Chris James covers firewalls, the risk to information security and data protection….
What Price Paid for Content?
Tom Lingard and Theo Varcoe review the various revenue-raising models that newspapers, and the publishing industry in general, are having to consider. They also look at the difficulties that may arise on enforcing payment for protected online content….
What’s Your Poison?
SEO poisoning is an increasingly popular method of attack for cybercriminals and one that shows they are using more sophisticated techniques. In the last year, attackers have poisoned search results on everything from the MTV awards to Google Wave invitations. Patrik Runald asks what makes these attacks such a success, and what does this mean for 2010?…
AdWords: The ECJ Judgment
The European Court of Justice has found that Google has not infringed trade mark law by allowing advertisers to purchase keywords corresponding to their competitors’ trade marks. However, it has prohibited advertisers from using such keywords when arranging for Google to display any ads which do not allow internet users easily to establish from which undertaking the goods or services covered by the ad in question originate…