Commissioner’s Competition Carrot for Google
Is Commissioner Almunia’s carrot really a rather threatening weapon?…
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Telecoms & the Internet
Porn Opt-ins: Consultations and Confusion
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?…
Queen’s Speech: Communications Data Bill
Some further details on the proposed legislation have become available, and we have initial comments…
Real Residents Only: Advocate General’s Opinion on .eu Registration
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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Report of Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection
A Parliamentary Inquiry has concluded that ISPs need to be more pro-active in encouraging the protection of children from accessing harmful content…
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Internet Libel and Amazon’s Immunity
A recent Internet libel case highlights the extensive reach of ‘immunity’ for information services providers. Laurence Eastham attempts to pick out the more interesting aspects of a 99-paragraph judgment….
EU Commission Consultation on Internet of Things
The EU Commission has launched a consultation on rules for wirelessly connected devices – the ‘Internet of Things’…
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Roofers, Hamlet and T&Cs
Are big companies playing fair when they ask us to sign up to immensely complicated T&Cs online?…
Football Dataco: No Database Copyright Protection for Fixture Lists
David Cran and Paul Joseph consider the ECJ judgment in Football Dataco v Yahoo! and its likely impact…
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File-sharing and Norwich Pharmacal: Court Supervision of Letter of Claim
The High Court has made a Norwich Pharmacal order in favour of Golden Eye and Ben Dover Productions in a preliminary move towards volume file-sharing litigation. But Arnold J has applied a number of stringent conditions affecting the further pursuit of the action and has insisted upon a number of amendments to the draft letter of claim….
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