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Mark Weston

Expertise: Mark works across all areas of commercial law, information technology (IT) law, intellectual property (IP) law, on-line commerce law and media law.

Clients: Just some of Mark's more well-known clients include Groupon, RTL Group S.A., Elstree Film Studios, Sanyo, mysupermarket.co.uk, Retailcorp Brands LLC, Maxell, The Gulf Marketing Group, Playboy UK, Imagination Technologies Plc, T-Mobile and the BBC.

More unusual: Mark appears regularly on BBC1 (usually providing advice on-screen to BBC Watchdog) and also on Sky News as a legal commentator. More about Mark...

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W3C developments as to how web-surfers can protect their data

18 November 2011 | Mark Weston

Changes to the law in relation to cookies have resulted in an increasingly intense spotlight on the use of cookies by website operators. The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment)...

Tags on this discussion: Apple cookie cookie law cookies cookies consent data data protection data protection act Facebook Google IBM Internet Internet preferences Internet privacy Microsoft Online online content online preferences personal data preference tracking privacy Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 privacy preferences Software user W3C web web preferences web site web sites web standards web tracking web user Website website content website operator website operators website user websites World Wide Web Consortium Yahoo

BPI calls for Pirate Bay to be blocked in the same way as Newzbin2

16 November 2011 | Mark Weston

The British Recorded Music Industry (BPI), the UK’s music industry trade body, has followed up the court order obtained by the Motion Picture Association to force BT to block access to Newzbin2, the...

Tags on this discussion: BPI British Recorded Music Industry BT BT Cleanfeed copyright copyright holder copyright infringement copyright owner court order Designs and Patents Act 1988 file-sharing film film studios High Court High Court order illegal illegal file-sharing illegal website content infringement Intellectual property intellectual property rights Internet Internet access Internet piracy Internet service provider Internet service providers IP IP address IPR ISP ISPs music industry Newzbin Newzbin2 online content order Pirate Bay rights-holder rights-holders The Pirate Bay twentieth century fox twentieth century fox film twentieth century fox films unauthorised unlawful web web sites Website website access website block website blocking website content websites

Another appeal against exclusion from patentability allowed by the High Court – Re Protecting Kids the World Over Ltd, High Court

14 November 2011 | Mark Weston

Following the decision of the High Court in Halliburton, the High Court has now allowed an appeal against the decision of an Intellectual Property Office (IPO) hearing officer that had prevented the registration...

Tags on this discussion: Computer computer system Halliburton hearing officer High Court Intellectual property Intellectual Property Office intellectual property rights Internet IP IPO IPO hearing officer Online online content patent patent application patent infringement patent law patent registration patentability patentability exclusion patentable patented Patents registered patent registered patents web web site web sites Website website content websites

Patent application allowed after rejection for mental act

13 November 2011 | Mark Weston

Hewlett-Packard applied to register a patent for a computer implemented method of selecting an image to insert into an electronic document. An Intellectual Property Office examiner initially rejected the...

Tags on this discussion: Halliburton Hewlett-Packard High Court Intellectual property Intellectual Property Office intellectual property rights IP IPO IPO examiner IPR mental act patent patent application patent registration patentability patentable patented Patents registered patent registered patents

Alleged data breach by Vince Cable’s constituency office

12 November 2011 | Mark Weston

Vince Cable, the Government’s business secretary, has apologised after confidential documents and personal data of his constituents were discovered in transparent recycling bags over a nine-month period...

Tags on this discussion: Business Secretary confidence confidential constituency data data breach Government ICO ICO enforcement ICO enforcement action ICO fine Information Commissioner Information Commissioner's Office member of parliament MP parliament personal data privacy privacy breach Vince Cable

Call for Google to review its take-down policies

11 November 2011 | Mark Weston

Google has been asked to review its policy on taking down online reviews of businesses amid growing concerns of the number of fake reviews that are being published. The call comes after a business owner...

Tags on this discussion: business business review business reviews defamation Google Internet Online online posts online review online reviews take-down policies take-down policy verification verification process web web site web sites Website website content websites

Payment service provider warned to stop serving copyright infringing websites

9 November 2011 | Mark Weston

PhonepayPlus, the UK regulator of premium rate services, has announced that it will start to pass on details of pirated music websites to payment service providers as they are capable of enforcement. The...

Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright infringement credit card credit card companies credit card company illegal Intellectual property intellectual property rights Internet IP music music piracy Online online piracy payment provider payment providers payment service provider payment service providers PhonepayPlus Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 recording industry The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry unlawful web web site web sites Website website content websites

ITV told to mind the law, and be careful talking about it

7 November 2011 | Mark Weston

Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, has ruled that ITV breached the BCAP Code when interviewing the actress Amanda Holden on morning television. The Code specifies what broadcasters can and cannot...

Tags on this discussion: Amanda Holden BCAP BCAP Code BCAP Code Breach BCAP COde Compliance brand branding brands broadcast broadcast rights broadcaster broadcasters broadcasting broadcasts communications regulator illegal infringement ITV morning television Ofcom Ofcom ruling QualitySolicitors television TV undue prominence unlawful

ECJ case confirms that Internet publishers responsible for breach of privacy in every country where the material is accessible – eDate Advertising v X, Oliver Martinez & Robert Martinez v MGN Limited, ECJ

5 November 2011 | Mark Weston

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that individuals can sue publishers of content on the Internet which they believe has harmed their image. The ECJ considered two cases, one from France and...

Tags on this discussion: breach of privacy claim data data protection ECJ EU Europe European Commission European Court of Justice European Union Internet Internet age national courts Online online content privacy private life publish publishers right to private life Sunday Mirror unlawful web web site web sites Website website content websites

BT given 14 days to block access to Newzbin2 – Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and others v BT, High Court

3 November 2011 | Mark Weston

Following the recent ruling of the High Court which ordered BT to block its users’ access to Newzbin2, an illegal file-sharing and download website, the High Court has now confirmed the details of the...

Tags on this discussion: BT BT Cleanfeed copyright copyright holder copyright infringement copyright owner court order Designs and Patents Act 1988 file-sharing film film studios High Court High Court order illegal illegal file-sharing illegal website content infringement Intellectual property intellectual property rights Internet Internet access Internet piracy Internet service provider Internet service providers IP IP address IPR ISP ISPs Newzbin Newzbin2 online content order rights-holder rights-holders twentieth century fox twentieth century fox film twentieth century fox films unauthorised unlawful web web sites Website website access website block website blocking website content websites

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