“European court of justice’s decision reinforces law under which UK online publishers can be sued in any EU member state.”
The Guardian, 25th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK’s Digital Economy Act (DEA) was meant to make pirates quake in their boots, but so far it has failed to shiver any timbers.”
BBC News, 21st October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Mr Justice Tugendhat has dismissed a £1m defamation claim launched against Law Society chief executive Des Hudson by Solicitors from Hell owner Rick Kordowksi, branding the bid ‘an abuse of the court process’.”
The Lawyer, 21st October 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Web hosts and ISPs should be allowed to keep allegedly defamatory comments online as long as the author of the comment is identified and a notice of complaint is published alongside the comment, a Parliamentary committee has recommended.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Justice in a time of economic crisis and in the age of the internet (PDF)
Speech by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls
High Sheriff’s Lecture 2011, 13th October 2011
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The editor of Private Eye told peers on Tuesday that the sex lives of well-known figures can be a legitimate subject of journalistic investigation.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Subscribers to four of the UK’s biggest internet service providers will have to ‘opt in’ if they want to view sexually explicit websites, as part of government-sponsored curbs on online pornography.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“BT and TalkTalk have been granted permission to appeal against their failed legal challenge to the Digital Economy Act, which is central to the government’s attempts to curb illegal downloading.”
The Guardian, 7th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said that it is set to report record annual complaints figures as a result of changes to its responsibilities earlier this year. It said that almost one third of complaints are now about online advertising falling under its extended remit.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“New proposals to regulate how broadband is advertised have been called ‘disappointing’ by Ofcom and ‘a green light to mislead’ by consumer group Which?.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“State-imposed control of the internet is ‘inevitable’ if the conflict between the right to privacy and a free press is ever to be resolved, lawyers and journalists suggested last week at a Law Society public debate.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 29th September 2011
Source: www:lawgazette.co.uk
Interflora Inc and another v Marks & Spencer plc (Case C-323/09); [2011] WLR (D) 281
“Article 5(1)(a) of First Council Directive 89/104/EEC and article 9(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 on the Community trade mark was to be interpreted as meaning that the proprietor of a trade mark was entitled to prevent a competitor from advertising on the basis of a keyword which was identical with the trade mark and which had been selected in an internet referencing service by the competitor without the proprietor’s consent, where that use was liable to have an adverse effect on one of the functions of the trade mark. Article 5(2) of Directive 89/104 and article 9(1)(c) of Regulation No 40/94 was to be interpreted as meaning that the proprietor of a trade mark with a reputation was entitled to prevent a competitor from advertising on the basis of a keyword corresponding to that trade mark, which the competitor had, without the proprietor’s consent, selected in an internet referencing service, where the competitor thereby took unfair advantage of the distinctive character or repute of the trade mark (free-riding) or where the advertising was detrimental to that distinctive character (dilution) or to that repute (tarnishment).”
WLR Daily, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A worker who was sacked after criticising her workplace on Facebook was unfairly dismissed, an Employment Tribunal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK’s advertising watchdog has ruled that a BT press advert was misleading and should not appear in its current form again.”
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK’s data protection watchdog’s guidance includes amendments made to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) in May. The changes transposed an EU Directive into national law.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has delivered a hard-hitting speech, calling on net firms, advertisers and credit card companies to cut ties with websites that link to unlawful content.”
BBC News, 14th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Berkshire man has been jailed for posting abusive messages online about a schoolgirl after she committed suicide. Sean Duffy, 25, of Reading, was handed an 18-week sentence for posts on social networking sites about Worcester teenager Natasha MacBryde.”
BBC News, 13th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The UK’s advertising watchdog has received a surge in the number of complaints it has had to investigate since it was given oversight of digital marketing regulation, it has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Government has asked Ofcom to avoid giving alleged copyright infringers a general right of appeal against warning letters they may receive about their online activity in new regulations due out shortly, the telecoms regulator has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th September 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The fight between the Law Society and Solicitors from Hell website owner Rick Kordowski has taken a further twist with Kordowski launching a defamation claim against Law Society chief executive Des Hudson.”
The Lawyer, 2nd September 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
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