Questions arising from the podcast of the meeting of 28 February on service levels and service credits. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course Code HW/SFCL26. 1.5 hours of CPD…
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Defamation Bill Published
The long-awaited reform of defamation has come closer with publication of the Bill. The proposed defence of web site operators will be of special interest to SCL members….
Database Right: Latest High Court Judgment
The High Court has given judgment in a dispute about the use of online sports data relating to football matches…
Improving the EU’s Proposals for Extra-judicial Consumer Redress
Pablo Cortés outlines the recent proposals for ODR and makes constructive suggestions for improvements which will increase consumer confidence and take-up….
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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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Pirate Bay Blocking: Latest Judgment Now Published
The latest judgment in the case concerning the blocking of The Pirate Bay sites by UK ISPs has now become available. Notwithstanding widespread mainstream media excitement, the judgment itself was entirely as expected and contains little of note….
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SAS v WPL: No Copyright says ECJ
The functionality of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright according to the latest judgment from the ECJ. The purchaser of a licence for a program is entitled, as a rule, to observe, study or test its functioning so as to determine the ideas and principles which underlie that program….
First Monetary Penalty for NHS Body
A Welsh health board has become the first NHS organisation to be served a monetary penalty following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act, the Information Commissioner’s Office said on 30 April….