A Streetcar Named Mistake
Google has mistakenly been collecting wi-fi data in the course of its Street View data collection exercise. What’s it going to do about it?…
Telecoms & the Internet
Fixture List Protection
Susan Barty and Lucy Kilshaw report on a High Court ruling of 24 April which held that football fixture lists can be protected by copyright and which makes interesting reading for those interested in the database right….
21 Today
No, it’s not the Editor’s birthday, notwithstanding that damnably deceptive youthful look. It is SCL’s Twitter followers who have the key to the door. But what is it the door to?…
Google AdWords: Free Rein to Search Engines?
Julia Hörnle reports on the Court of Justice judgment in the Google AdWords case but questions whether the judgment gives quite as much freedom to Google as some have suggested….
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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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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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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?…
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….
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…