“Telecoms operators will be able to access land for equipment installation even
when full agreement with landlords has not been reached under Law Commission
proposals published today to revise the laws governing the installation and
maintenance of telecoms equipment.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The High Court has ordered the UK’s major internet service providers to block three websites offering links to pirated material.”
BBC News, 28th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“In a report published today the Law Commission is recommending reforms that will bring the Electronic Communications Code up to date with modern technology while continuing to balance the rights of landowners and the public demand for modern communications services.”
Law Commission, 28th February 2013
Source: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
“Google, Facebook and Twitter have been ordered by the police to remove photographs purporting to show one of James Bulger’s killers.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“People who tweeted photos allegedly of child killer Jon Venables are being charged with contempt of court. It’s the latest in a long line of cases that suggest that ordinary social media users need to have a grasp of media law.”
BBC News, 26th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lord McAlpine has announced that he is dropping defamation claims against Twitter users with fewer than 500 followers who wrongly named him as a paedophile, instead asking for a charitable donation.”
The Independent, 21st February 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain’s jury system should not be judged by the outcome of a single, complex and highly unusual case, senior lawyers have warned following the collapse of the Vicky Pryce trial.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Tamiz v Google Inc and another [2013] EWCA Civ 68; [2013] WLR (D) 65
“An internet service provider which supplied a platform for blogs and various tools to assist the blogger, and which was able to remove or block access to blogs when alerted to the fact that they breached its own terms and conditions, could be potentially liable for defamatory comments posted on a blog once it had received notification and had had sufficient time to act. A defence might be available under section 1 of the Defamation Act 1996, but if the potential liability would be so trivial because of the short period of time between notification of the complaint and removal of the offending material, the maintenance of the proceedings could not be justified.”
WLR Daily, 14th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Posting a link to copyrighted content should not be regarded as a communication of that work to the public, a group of leading academics has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Court of Appeal has ruled that in principle, an internet service provider that allowed defamatory material to remain on a blog hosted on its platform after it had been notified of a complaint might be a ‘publisher’ of this material, although in this case the probable damage to the complainant’s reputation over a short period was so trivial that libel proceedings could not be justified.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th February 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Web giant calls telecoms company’s lawsuit ‘meritless’, and claims its own intellectual property has been infringed.”
The Guardian, 14th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Google may have to act quicker to remove potentially libellous posts from its Blogger platform following a court of appeal ruling in London.”
The Guardian, 14th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A photograph posted on Twitter that may have exposed the new identity of James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables was on Wednesday night being investigated by the Attorney General’s office as a possible contempt of court.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A range of businesses across the financial services, energy and technology sectors are among those that would be subject to new cyber security and breach notification rules under new legislative plans outlined by the European Commission.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP speaks of the challenge to jury trial posed by the internet. Originally given at University of Kent.”
Attorney General’s Office, 6th February 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
“Website operators can be held responsible for database rights infringement by their users if that infringement was ‘inevitable’ as a result of actions of the site operators, the Court of Appeal has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“‘Trial by Google’ threatens to undermine the integrity of the British jury system and ‘offends the principle of open justice’, according to the attorney general, Dominic Grieve QC.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government’s plans to track everybody’s web and mobile phone use rest on some ‘pretty heroic assumptions’, the head of MI5 has told MPs and peers.”
The Guardian, 5th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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