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….
The office of the European Data Protection Supervisor has been working overtime. In addition to its work on video surveillance guidelines, it published an Opinion on ‘Promoting trust in the information society by fostering data protection and privacy’ on 18 March. The focus is on privacy by design (PbD)…
Julia Hörnle provides a review of the Court of Appeal judgment in R v Sheppard and Whittle, which focused on the test to determine whether the English courts have jurisdiction in a criminal case involving a foreign web site….
The Article 29 Working Party recently published an Opinion on two of the key concepts under the Data Protection Directive – ‘data controller’ and ‘data processor’. Tanguy Van Overstraeten and Richard Cumbley explain that the distinction between the two has a number of practical implications including determining who is liable to comply with data protection law and whether processing clauses are required….
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The Conservative Party launched its Technology Manifesto on 11 March. The Manifesto includes a number of proposals of special interest to IT lawyers….
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Clive Freedman brings readers up to date on the new proposals for disclosure stemming from the Jackson Report and on the latest developments on the long-standing proposals for a new Practice Direction on e-disclosure…
The new draft Practice Direction on e-disclosure included a draft questionnaire on ESI sources. A newly published judgment from Senior Master Whitaker includes the questionnaire and constitutes the first known example of its use as one element in case management. It has yet to be adopted by the Rule Committee and had not previously been published for voluntary use….
David Chaplin reports on the SCL’s Contract Update seminar hosted by Wragge & Co on 24 February…
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The European Data Protection Supervisor has published a report raising concerns about the EU’s negotiations to stop counterfeiting and the ‘three strikes’ rule….
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In the latest development in the long-running dispute between SABAM and Tiscali, the questions from the Belgian court to the ECJ have been published. Chris Watson, Tom Scourfield and Scott Fairbairn explain why those questions, and of course their answers, might matter to you….