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Supreme Court rules that The Times acted responsibly in publishing allegedly defamatory allegations of corruption against police officer – Flood v Times Newspapers, Supreme Court

5 April 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The Times newspaper had acted responsibly when publishing an article about police officer, Gary Flood, which had linked him to corruption involving Russian oligarchs, the Supreme Court has ruled. In overturning...

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European Parliament votes in favour of allowing non-commercial use of orphan works

4 April 2012 | Paul Gershlick

A European Parliament committee has voted in favour of allowing orphan works to be made available online for non-commercial use. An orphan work is copyright material which has no identified owner. The...

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High Court does not consider Google a publisher in relation to blogs on its services – Payam Tamiz v Google Inc, High Court

3 April 2012 | Simon Weinberg

In April 2011, a blog named “London Muslim” published an article on Blogger.com, a blogging platform operated by Google Inc. The article was about Mr Tamiz, a former Conservative Party local election...

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Government proposes intermediary role for ISPs in new Defamation Bill

30 March 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The Government has proposed that intermediaries such as Internet service providers act as “liaison points” between authors of allegedly defamatory comments and the people about whom the allegations...

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UK teenage website operator faces extradition to US for making money out of links to pirated film and TV content

30 March 2012 | Paul Gershlick

A UK man who was a teenager when he operated the tvshack.net website is facing extradition to the US after the Home Secretary approved the US’s request. Richard O’Dwyer’s site made £150,000 from...

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Yahoo! sues Facebook for alleged infringement of 10 patents

30 March 2012 | Paul Gershlick

Yahoo! is suing Facebook for alleged infringement of 10 of its patents, alleging that its entire social networking model is based on Yahoo's patented social networking technology. Facebook has about 50...

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CNIL questions sent to Google about new privacy policy

29 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg

Following on-going criticism about Google's implementation of a new privacy policy, CNIL, the French data protection regulator, has asked Google to answer 69 questions about the move. The new privacy policy...

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Mars Twitter marketing campaign cleared by ASA

16 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg

In its first consideration of advertising on Twitter, the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA) has ruled that a Twitter marketing campaign by Mars does not breach the CAP Code. The CAP Code is the code...

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Digital Economy Act lives on, again – R (British Telecommunications plc and TalkTalk Telecom Group plc) v Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport and others, Court of Appeal

16 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg

BT and TalkTalk, the Internet service providers (ISPs), have seen their appeal in the judicial review of the Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEA) rejected by the Court of Appeal. They had argued that the DEA...

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Recent developments in telecommunications regulation

13 March 2012 | Ted Mercer

It’s an interesting time for telecoms regulation in the UK (and indeed in the rest of Europe).  The European Commission has suggested and the European Parliament will agree new provisions for roaming,...

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