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
15 April 2010 | Mark Weston
The Digital Economy Bill has been passed by the House of Commons without much chance for Parliamentary debate with the aim of getting it on the statute books before the General Election - a process known...
Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright infringement Digital Britain Report Digital Economy Act Digital Economy Bill file-sharing illegal Intellectual property intellectual property rights Internet connection Internet service provider ISP peer-to-peer unlawf wash-up
26 March 2010 | Paul Gershlick
The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers are going to start to charge people to access their content online from June. Newspapers are coming under increasing commercial pressure with falling circulations...
25 March 2010 | Paul Gershlick
BCAP (the Committee of Advertising Practice Broadcast Committee) and CAP (the Committee of Advertising Practice) are introducing new Codes of Practice regulating adverts. BCAP regulates the BCAP Code (which...
Tags on this discussion: Advertising Standards Authority ASA BCAP Code CAP code honest practices misleading advertising
24 March 2010 | Mark Weston
The gloves have certainly come off in the legal spat between YouTube and Viacom. Viacom – the owner of masses of media and entertainment content – is suing the popular video-sharing web site in the...
Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright infringement Digital Millennium Copyright Act illegal Intellectual property intellectual property rights unauthorised
9 February 2010 | Paul Gershlick
The recent tidal wave of the developing laws of privacy has been halted with the High Court’s recent refusal to continue an injunction stopping the reporting of the indiscretions of a footballer. John...
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5 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick
Five news providers have won a long court battle to avoid having to provide access to leaked documents, something which would have revealed their sources. Previously, the High Court and Court of Appeal...
Tags on this discussion: confidentiality Court of Appeal ECHR European Convention on Human Rights European Court of Human Rights freedom of expression High Court
5 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick
A football Premier League manager has been caught virtually with his trousers down in morally questionable circumstances. However, The Sun newspaper (which broke the story) and other tabloids have been...
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14 December 2009 | Paul Gershlick
The Government has published the Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2009 to bring into force the EU's Audiovisual Media Services Directive. The Directive replaced the Television Without Frontiers...
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