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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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OFT sends message to online world that paid-for content appearing to be independent is misleading and won’t be tolerated

15 December 2010 | Mark Weston

The Office of Fair Trading has sent down a clear message to the online community that web sites which purport to give independent reviews or material but are not really independent because they charge...

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Piracy in these shores on the up

14 December 2010 | Mark Weston

An estimated 8 million people in the UK continue to download music illegally. That’s the finding of a survey by BPI, the trade organisation for the UK record music industry. The survey also estimated...

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OFT publishes strategy to increase protection of consumer rights when shopping online, including better enforcement

13 December 2010 | Mark Weston

The Office of Fair Trading has published a strategy document to better protect consumers who shop online in the UK. The OFT would like to undertake more effective enforcement, improve compliance by businesses...

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Libel law must be reformed – Joseph v Spiller, Supreme Court

10 December 2010 | Simon Weinberg

The Supreme Court has taken the first step in what it hopes will be a reform of the libel law. Lord Phillips and Lord Walker gave a critique of the current law of ‘fair comment’, which they have renamed...

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European Patent Office creates free online search tool for all clean energy technology pate

8 December 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The European Patent Office has created an innovation of its own. It has created a tool that enables people to search for free for all patents in relation to the clean energy technology sector, wherever...

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US Supreme Court does not overturn ruling that eBay not liable for counterfeit Tiffany products

7 December 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Tiffany has lost a legal action brought against eBay in which the jewellery shop sought to hold the popular online auction site liable for sales made of counterfeit products through its online platform....

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US takes action against file-sharing and counterfeit product sites

6 December 2010 | Mark Weston

The United States government, through the Customs Enforcement Agency branch of the Department for Homeland Security, has shut down more than 70 websites that are alleged to have been offering pirate content...

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New powers suggested to close down UK domain names

5 December 2010 | Mark Weston

The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has proposed that Nominet (the UK domain name registry) should have the power to close down domain names if they are involved in criminal activity, such as...

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Newspaper monitoring service users must pay licence fee to newspapers collecting agency to receive service – NLA v Meltwater, High Court

2 December 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Meltwater provided an online service whereby it created newspaper monitoring reports for customers. The reports contained the headline, opening text and extract from the articles. Meltwater told customers...

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Google investigated over allegations of abuse of dominant position in search engine market

2 December 2010 | Mark Weston

Google is being investigated by the European Commission over allegations that it abused its dominant position in the search engine market, contrary to European Union competition law. The fact that...

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