Social Media: Hidden IP Dangers
Alastair Cox and Iona Harding examine the intellectual property pitfalls associated with everyday uses of social media….
Publishing & social media
Council of Europe’s Internet Governance Strategy
The Council of Europe has adopted an Internet Governance Strategy to protect and promote human rights, the rule of law and democracy online….
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Goodbye Godfrey, Hello Tamiz
Graham Smith offers some thought-provoking reflections on the judgment in the recent Google libel case and considers its importance for online defamation claims. This article is taken from his Cyberleagle blog at www.cyberleagle.com….
User-generated Content and Defamation: New Judgment re Google’s Blogger.com
The High Court has given answers to some of the questions concerning liability for online defamation arising from alleged libel in comments attached to a post on Google’s Blogger.com. Was Google a publisher? Was it protected by the Defamation Act and/or the E-commerce Directive? Laurence Eastham summarises key points from the judgment….
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Social Media – Time for a Firm-wide Policy?
In light of recent guidance for law firms from the Law Society, Laura Scaife looks at the need for a policy on social media…
CJEU Judgment in SABAM v Netlog
The CJEU rules that the owner of an online social network cannot be obliged to install a general filtering system in order to prevent the unlawful use of protected works…
Funeral Music
You can’t take it with you – will my digital assets disappear in a puff of smoke? I offer a depressing musical journey and a plea for enlightenment….
The Future is Facebook?
Are emails and texts going to be supplanted by social media sites….
Appy Talk
This article from Dr. Daithí Mac Síthigh on the regulation of apps, with its special focus on Apple’s own approach, gives the flavour of his much praised presentation at SCL’s 6th Annual Policy Forum held in September 2011….
Disclosure of Username Data: Patel v Unite
The High Court has ordered a trade union to allow an independent expert access to their database and prepare a report for a claimant in an action involving allegedly defamatory postings on a forum….