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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...

Tags on this discussion: Court of Appeal defamation defamatory defamatory allegations High Court libel libellous libelous On-line Online public interest Reynolds defence Reynolds privilege Supreme Court

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...

Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright infringement ECHR European Convention on Human Rights extradition infringe infringement infringement of copyright intellectual property rights infringement IP IP infringement IPR IPRs On-line Online online content online IP piracy pirated web web content web site content web sites web-piracy Website website content websites

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...

Tags on this discussion: infringement initial public offering innovation intellectual property rights infringement IP infringement IPO IPR infringement On-line Online patent patent infringement patent infringements Patents search engine settlement social networking site

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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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...

Tags on this discussion: BT copyright copyright infringement Court of Appeal Digital Economy Act 2010 EU Europe European Commission European Union infringement Intellectual property intellectual property rights Internet Internet service provider IP ISP Online online content TalkTalk web web site web sites Website website content websites

The Pirate Bay going the same way as Newzbin – Dramatico Entertainment Ltd and others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd and others, High Court

12 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg

Following the recent ruling in favour the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) that Internet service providers (ISPs) must block access to Newzbin2, a website that offers users a search engine and download...

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More criticism of Google’s privacy changes

7 March 2012 | Simon Weinberg

On 1 March 2012, Google consolidated all of its privacy policies into one, so that personal data collected through one Google service can be shared with other Google services such as YouTube, Gmail and...

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Latest news and views tagged Online

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

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

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

Government proposes intermediary role for ISPs in new Defamation Bill

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

Yahoo! sues Facebook for alleged infringement of 10 patents

CNIL questions sent to Google about new privacy policy

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

The Pirate Bay going the same way as Newzbin – Dramatico Entertainment Ltd and others v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd and others, High Court

More criticism of Google’s privacy changes

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