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Whether it’s drafting your T&C’s, making sure that you are compliant with data protection, or ensuring that your hosting SLA is as robust as possible, our website team will help you through the legal minefield of a constantly changing legislation. We also have an anti-counterfeiting practice and work with IP investigators to police online and real-world markets for counterfeit goods on behalf of our clients.

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Court of Appeal rules end-users need licence to access online news service – Newspaper Licensing Agency v Meltwater Holding, Court of Appeal

4 August 2011 | Mark Weston

The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) manages the intellectual property rights of its members (generally publishers of national newspapers) by licensing newspaper content and collecting licence fees. Meltwater...

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Article 29 Working Party gives concerning definition of consent

3 August 2011 | Paul Gershlick

The Article 29 Working Party – a European Union data protection advisory body consisting of national data protection regulators – has issued concerning an opinion as to its interpretation on the definition...

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Ofcom reports that broadband speeds less than advertised

2 August 2011 | Simon Weinberg

Despite the Advertising Standards Authority recently ruling that a Virgin Media advertising campaign criticising other broadband service providers for misleading the public could not appear again in its...

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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...

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L’Oréal battle with eBay worth it as ECJ delivers stunning victory for the cosmetics brand in battle against trade mark infringers – L’Oréal v eBay, European Court of Justice

27 July 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Some two years ago, the High Court ruled that eBay would not be jointly liable for trade mark infringements by its users who sold infringing products on its website. However, the ruling was referred to...

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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...

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Lawyer-shaming website finds out what Solicitors from Hell really means

25 July 2011 | Paul Gershlick | 3 comments

One thing that’s probably not a good idea is trying to take on the whole legal profession in an explosive issue that they all feel strongly about – their professional reputations. Well, Solicitors...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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