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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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ICO warns of £500,000 fine for single incident of spam or automated calls

29 July 2011 | Mark Weston

The Information Commissioner’s Office – the regulator in charge of enforcing UK data protection laws. – has warned businesses that they could face fines of up to £500,000 for a single incident of...

Tags on this discussion: automated automated call ePrivacy Directive fine ICO illegal Information Commissioner Information Commissioner's Office Information Commissioner’s Office On-line Online privacy privacy and electronic communications Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations privacy and electronic communications (ec directive) regulations Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive privacy and electronic communications regulations privacy issues right to privacy spam spammers

Online sales continue to grow rapidly

28 July 2011 | Mark Weston

Online sales in the UK continue their rapid expansion. Latest figures show that purchases made over the Internet have now reached nearly 10% of all UK retail revenue. The sales from one June to the next...

Tags on this discussion: B2C business business-to-consumer businesses Internet Internet business Internet businesses Internet use Internet user On-line Online online content online shopping web web site web sites Website website content

ASA in double whammy against L’Oreal

27 July 2011 | Mark Weston

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has issued two rulings against L’Oréal for the use of ‘digital manipulation’ in its adverts. The two magazine adverts, one relating to "Teint Miracle"...

Tags on this discussion: advert advertisement advertising advertising content Advertising Standards Agency Advertising Standards Authority adverts airbrush anti-aging ASA CAP CAP code digital manipulation infringement L'Oreal Lancôme L’Oréal marketing communications Maybelline misleading misleading advert misleading advertisement misleading advertising

Music body wants green light to clear online legitimacy traffic signals

26 July 2011 | Mark Weston

The Performing Rights Society for Music has called on search engines to offer a traffic light service under which Internet users could see whether a music site they were going to was supporting legitimately...

Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright holder copyright holders copyright infringement copyright law copyright owner copyright owners copyrighted copyrighted material download downloading file-sharer file-sharing illegal illegal download illegal downloading illegal file-sharing infringement Intellectual property intellectual property rights Internet Internet use Internet user IP IP rights IPR music music downloads music industry music law On-line Online online content online IP P2P peer-to-peer PRS search search engine search engines search result unauthorised

Google ends suspension of links to Belgian newspapers’ websites after agreeing basis of copyright infringement action

25 July 2011 | Mark Weston

Google has agreed to allow Belgian newspapers to be listed on search results generated by its search engine after the newspapers had claimed that Google had been unnecessarily aggressive in removing them....

Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright holder copyright holders copyright infringement copyright owner copyright owners hyperlink infringement Intellectual property intellectual property rights Internet Internet use Internet user IP IP infringement IP rights IPR link On-line Online online content search search engine search engines search result search term

Government plans to tighten gambling licensing

24 July 2011 | Mark Weston

The Government his signalled its intention to reduce offshore betting by introducing a system that will mean that all bookmakers operating in the UK, whether they are based in the UK or abroad, will need...

Tags on this discussion: betting betting law betting licence betting regulation bookmaker bookmakers foreign-based bookmaker gambling Gambling Commission gambling law gambling licence gambling regulation gaming gaming law gaming licence gaming regulation offshore offshore bookmaker operator UK operator UK-based bookmaker

European Commission consults on EU-wide copyright licensing system

23 July 2011 | Mark Weston

The European Commission is consulting on its plans to create an EU-wide copyright licensing system in which copyright owners would make their works available across borders in exchange for payments through...

Tags on this discussion: collecting society copyright copyright holder copyright holders copyright law copyright owner copyright owners copyright regime copyrighted material EU EU law European Commission European Union European Union law IT

Court orders BT to impose filter to stop its users having access to unauthorised film-sharing site – Twentieth Century Fox v BT, High Court

22 July 2011 | Mark Weston

The High Court has for the first time ordered an Internet service provider to block its users from accessing a website that contained copyright-infringing material. In a previous legal action, several...

Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright infringement file-sharer file-sharing High Court illegal illegal download illegal downloading illegal file-sharing infringement injunction Intellectual property intellectual property rights Internet Internet connection Internet service provider Internet service providers Internet use Internet user IP IP infringement IPR ISP jurisdiction On-line Online online content online IP P2P peer-to-peer unauthorised web web content web site web site content web sites web-piracy Website website content websites

ECJ allows national law to stop registration of famous people’s names even after they have sold their Community Trade Mark rights – Edwin v OHIM, European Court of Justice

22 July 2011 | Mark Weston

Elio Fiorucci, the fashion designer, sold the creative rights including his trade marks to Edwin. Edwin later registered "ELIO FIORUCCI" as a European Community Trade Mark. Fiorucci asked for the mark...

Tags on this discussion: brand brand protection branding brands CJEU Community Trade Mark Community Trade Mark Regulation Community Trade Marks Court of Justice of European Union Court of Justice of the European Union ECJ EU EU trade mark Europe European Community Trade Mark European Community Trade Marks European Court of Justice European Union Intellectual property intellectual property rights IP IPR OHIM registered trade mark trade mark trade mark directive Trade Mark Regulation trade marks trade marks directive trademark trademarks

Betfair complains to EC about proposed German gambling reform

21 July 2011 | Mark Weston

Betfair, the online gaming company, has complained to the European Commission about a proposal to reform German gambling laws which it alleges is anti-competitive. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently...

Tags on this discussion: anti-competitive betting competition competition regime EC ECJ EU Europe European Commission European Court of Justice European Union gambling gaming gaming licence German German betting German gambling German gaming Germany lotteries lottery monopoly online betting online gambling online gaming

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