Hurrah for the ICO
The ICO have gained some street cred in dealing with Street View. But does it get two cheers or three?…
Telecoms & the Internet
The Sinking of Pirate Bay
Nick McDonald believes that the decision by a Swedish court to convict Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde of assisting making available copyrighted content’ is potentially significant, but that caution needs to shown in immediately suggesting it will have wider effect….
Rough Guide to Wikis: The “Do”s
The KM Group’s last event of 2008 discussed wikis, the good the bad and the ugly. This the first in a 2 part blog of “do”s and “don’t”s…
Web 2.0 and Online Reputation Monitoring
Shireen Smith tells us about online reputations: how to protect them and how to monitor them. She suggests that there may be a new role for lawyers here….
Has the ICO Swung behind Opt-outs in Behavioural Advertising?
The debate about the protection of individual privacy on the Internet could be about to take a new twist with the apparent removal of a statement supporting an opt-in regime for online behavioural advertising (OBA) from the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office….
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Cybersquatting Record
WIPO has revealed that 2008 was a record year for cybersquatting disputes and has expressed concern about the forthcoming new gTLDs….
Internet Libel: Sympathy for the Devil
It is tempting to condemn the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights on Internet libel as a missed opportunity. But if they had gone the other way, what remedies might be left to the defamed?…
Online Behavioural Advertising: IAB Good Practice Principles
The Internet Advertising Bureau has launched a set of Good Practice Principles – self-regulatory guidelines to set good practice for companies that collect and use data for online behavioural advertising purposes….
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Send Out the Search Party
Various European courts are awaiting answers from the European Court of Justice regarding search engine use of sponsored keywords. Susan Barty, Isabel Davies and Phillip Carnell offer a review of the most significant and most recent questions to be referred to the ECJ about search engine keywords and trade mark infringement…
An Un-governating Principle for the Internet
Taking an expert technical perspective, Jon Crowcroft thinks much of the debate about Internet governance can be denuded of meaning by technical solutions. This article arises from a presentation at the SCL Forum held in September 2008 ‘Legislating for Web 2.0 – Preparing for the Communications Act?’…
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