ICO’s View on the Street View Mistake
The Information Commissioner’s Office released a statement on 29 July giving its assessment of the data protection implications of the wi-fi data collected by Google’s Street View vehicles….
Telecoms & the Internet
Google AdWords and Advert Text: Policy Changes
Google has announced changes in its policies on the use of trademarks in the text of adverts and on the use of trade marks as keywords. The policy changes are, at least in part, influenced by the rulings of the Court of Justice in the AdWords case and the Portakabin case….
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Google and France: Place Your Bets
The latest announcement of changes in policy on the acceptance of adverts for AdWords seems like a bit of a gamble….
Widespread Unlawful Data Retention in the EU
European data protection authorities at the latest Article 29 Working Party meeting have concluded that current purported implementation of the Data Retention Directive is unlawful…
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Net Neutrality: Ofcom ‘opens debate’
Ofcom has published a discussion paper and is seeking views on net neutrality issues…
Google Wins in Viacom/YouTube Dispute
The judge in the long-running dispute between Viacom and You Tube (now a Google company) has granted Google’s application for summary judgment…
New gTLDs: Shaking up the Internet
The pool for domain names may well increase dramatically by late 2011 with the introduction of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) and a variety of different generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). These developments will undoubtedly drive changes in businesses’ online reputation strategy and management. Nick Wenban-Smith explains the proposed new landscape and outlines how businesses can prepare for this imminent arrival of new domains….
IT Lawyers’ Cases in Brief
Laurence Eastham summarises some of the judgments which have been published in the last two months and which are of interest to IT lawyers….
Domain Name Registration: The Court of Justice and .eu
The Court of Justice has considered the revocation of .eu domain name registrations and evidence of bad faith in registration…
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Digital Music and Online Intermediaries
The Trustees of SCL are delighted to adopt this important contribution to the debate on solutions to the problem of unlawful file-sharing and its effect on copyright holders as an SCL Policy Document. The Document, written by Professor Chris Reed and Berna Akcali Gur, reviews the legal issues surrounding copyright in digital music and the potential liability of ISPs and suggests a move to a long-term solution where access providers pay licence fees to content owners – and users receive the music free of restriction. The Paper is one product of the highly successful SCL Forum, held in September 2009 and hosted and sponsored by Herbert Smith LLP….