Archive for July, 2010

European Commission gives UK Government two month ultimatum to make Data Protection Act comply with EU Data Protection Directive requirements

2 July 2010 | Mark Weston

The European Commission has laid down a two month ultimatum in which the UK Government must comply with the Commission’s requirements to ensure that the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998 properly complies...

Tags on this discussion: CJEU Court of Justice of European Union data data controller data protection data protection act data protection directive data subject European Commission European Court of Justice ICO Information Commissioner's Office personal data

British record industry tells Google to stop having links to unauthorised music

2 July 2010 | Mark Weston

The BPI – the body representing the UK record industry – has written a letter to Google requiring them to remove links to web sites that contain unauthorised music. Although Google initially has a...

Tags on this discussion: copyright Digital Millennium Copyright Act file-sharing hyperlink illegal Intellectual property intellectual property rights IP peer-to-peer search engine search engines unauthorised unlawful

17 bathroom fittings companies fined total of €622m for price fixing cartel

1 July 2010 | Paul Gershlick

17 bathroom fittings companies, including some from outside the European Union, have been fined €622m by the European Commission for taking part in a cartel in which they agreed to fix the prices for...

Tags on this discussion: anti-competition cartel competition competition law EU European Union fine price fixing Whistleblower Whistleblowing

Can trustees’ right to be indemnified out of trust assets for all expenses reasonably and properly incurred and to have a lien over trust assets rank in priority to a bank’s security?

1 July 2010 | Steven Mills Comments Off

Although the trustees, in this case, did not assert any general principle that a trustees’ lien for their own expenses should prevail over the bank’s registered rights as mortgagee, they asserted...

Tags on this discussion: charge debenture priority receivers security trustees

“Are You Being Served?”

1 July 2010 | Justine Ash

Facebook - Are you being served? Recent developments in Australia and New Zealand concerning the service of legal documents via the social networking website Facebook show the extent to which the internet...

Tags on this discussion: CPR6 Litigation Reasonable Steps Service by email service of documents use of Facebook

Google not liable for copyright infringement by YouTube users

1 July 2010 | Mark Weston

Google has fended off a US$1 billion lawsuit brought against it by entertainment giant Viacom and other content providers, who claimed that the online services giant should be liable for the unauthorised...

Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright infringement Digital Millennium Copyright Act infringement Intellectual property intellectual property rights IP safe harbour UGC unauthorised user-generated content

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Archive for July, 2010

European Commission gives UK Government two month ultimatum to make Data Protection Act comply with EU Data Protection Directive requirements

British record industry tells Google to stop having links to unauthorised music

17 bathroom fittings companies fined total of €622m for price fixing cartel

Can trustees’ right to be indemnified out of trust assets for all expenses reasonably and properly incurred and to have a lien over trust assets rank in priority to a bank’s security?

“Are You Being Served?”

Google not liable for copyright infringement by YouTube users

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