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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, GOOP.com (Gwyneth Paltrow) 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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Twitter would comply with court order to reveal user identities

1 June 2011 | Mark Weston

Twitter has stated that it would reveal information about its users if required to do so by a court order or subpoena. This revelation comes as the US-based social networking site is opening up a physical...

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BT and TalkTalk to appeal Digital Economy Act High Court ruling

31 May 2011 | Mark Weston

BT and TalkTalk, the telecoms firms, recently failed in their bid to have the Digital Economy Act judicially reviewed, which was brought on the grounds that the Act failed to comply with European law....

Tags on this discussion: anti-piracy appeal copyright copyright infringement Digital Economy Act Digital Economy Act 2010 e-commerce EU Europe European Commission European Union file-sharing General Election High Court illegal infringement Intellectual property intellectual property rights Internet Internet service provider Internet service providers IP ISP judicial review Online parliament piracy privacy unauthorised unlawful web site web sites websites

Court responds to Parliament and social networking sites and upholds anonymity order in Premier League footballer super-injunction row – CTB v News Group Newspapers, High Court

30 May 2011 | Mark Weston

The High Court has refused to buckle under the pressure of disclosures made on Twitter and by an MP under Parliamentary privilege and has continued the anonymity order involving the footballer at the centre...

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European Commission consults on standard terms and conditions for cloud computing services

27 May 2011 | Mark Weston

The European Commission is consulting on adopting standard terms and conditions for use of cloud computing services. The consultation is asking people, businesses and public bodies to respond saying whether...

Tags on this discussion: agreement agreements cloud cloud computing commercial commercial agreement commercial agreements Commercial contract commercial contracts commercial law consultation contract contracts Europe European Commission European Union hosted service IT IT agreement IT services On-line Online standard terms standard terms and conditions standard trading terms Terms & conditions

Parliament and social networking sites take on courts in Premier League footballer super-injunction row

24 May 2011 | Mark Weston

The story has become so common now. Celebrity takes part in questionable extra-marital practices; participant wants to sell their story to the newspapers; celebrity applies for super-injunction that prohibits...

Tags on this discussion: balance ECHR EU Europe European Convention for Human Rights European Convention on Human Rights European Union free speech High Court HRA Human Rights Act injunction Internet Internet use jurisdiction On-line Online online content order parliament privacy privilege public interest publication publish right right to privacy social networking social networking site Sport super injunction tweet twitter web web content web postings web site web site content web sites webistes Website website content websites

Facebook security flaw allows advertisers to see users’ personal data

16 May 2011 | Mark Weston

Facebook has suffered an embarrassing security flaw in which advertisers have been able to see users’ accounts, including profiles, photos, chat and messages. Symantec, the security firm, discovered...

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Google ordered by Belgian court to remove snippets and links in Google News for infringing newspapers’ copyright

14 May 2011 | Mark Weston

Google has been ordered to remove snippets of stories taken from newspapers’ websites or links to stories on those websites from its Google News service. Copiepresse, which represents the newspapers,...

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Mosley privacy bid sent in a spin by European Court of Human Rights – Mosley v News Group Newspapers, European Court of Human Rights

13 May 2011 | Mark Weston

Max Mosley has failed in his bid to have the law of privacy changed, which he hoped would ensure that newspapers had to warn people before reporting on their private lives. Mosley had taken his bid to...

Tags on this discussion: appeal damages ECHR EU Europe European Convention on Human Rights European Court of Human Rights High Court human rights illegal infringement privacy private unauthorised unlawful

European Commission asks social networks to restrict access to children’s profiles

11 May 2011 | Mark Weston

The European Commission has called on social network sites to restrict access to children’s profiles. Following a survey paid for by the Commission and published by the EUKidsOnline network, it found...

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ICO targets spam with new enforcement powers

10 May 2011 | Mark Weston

The Government has announced that people or organisations that send spam emails could be fined up to £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). This would be for serious breaches of the...

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