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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
 
  Landmark Pirate Bay Trial Begins Monday | Threat Level from Wired.com
The much-anticipated criminal trial of The Pirate Bay's operators begins in a Stockholm criminal court on Monday.

Pirate Bay file-sharing defended
The founders of a website which carries links to copies of music, films and TV programmes have gone on trial in Sweden on charges of copyright theft.

Friday, February 13, 2009
 
  Mxit, Standard team up to save R5bn
The 12 million users of mobile social networking service Mxit could save up to R5 billion per year in transaction and telecommunications fees if the joint service between it and Standard Bank pans out.

Ad comparing perfume to L'Oréal's did not infringe trade marks, says Advocate General | OUT-LAW.COM
A perfume manufacturer which created a list of famous perfumes its fragrances smelled like did not break EU trade mark law, an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.

Lack of warning in first email made dismissal unfair, says EAT | OUT-LAW.COM
An employee's dismissal was unfair because the email inviting him to the first in a series of disciplinary meetings did not specifically say that the process might result in dismissal, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has said.

Monday, February 09, 2009
 
  ITWeb :ICASA tip-toes around telcos
The Independent Communications Authority of SA's (ICASA's) long-awaited handset subsidy draft regulations will only be available from the end of the month.

ICO urges organisations to promise to do better on privacy | OUT-LAW.COM
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has asked businesses and public bodies to promise that they will do more than their legal duty to protect the privacy of people whose personal data they hold.

Parliament probes privacy law, could give it legislative 'nudge' | OUT-LAW.COM
Parliament will investigate privacy law in the UK and may give the law a 'nudge', Justice Minister Jack Straw has said. A select committee of MPs will look into how the law has developed and how it is being implemented by courts, he said.

European court expands image privacy rights | OUT-LAW.COM
The European Court of Human Rights has expanded the reach of privacy rights by ruling that a photographer breached someone's privacy just by taking a photograph, even though that photograph was never published.

ICO helps organisations identify 'personal data' | OUT-LAW.COM
Privacy and data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published a guide to help organisations decide if information they hold is caught by the Data Protection Act (DPA).

Wednesday, February 04, 2009
 
  Blogger who didn't delete comment cannot sue over it, says High Court | OUT-LAW.COM
A man who was criticised in the comments section of his own blog cannot sue for defamation because he did not delete the comment when he discovered it, the High Court has said. The Court said that the man consented to the comment's publication.

Why employers should control how staff use Facebook | OUT-LAW.COM
President Barack Obama had a shock on his first day at work. The man who had run a pioneering campaign using social media to galvanise support couldn't access Facebook – or webmail, or any number of web tools that were central to his campaign.

Law will force ISPs to pass file-sharing data to record labels | OUT-LAW.COM
The Government will create legislation forcing internet service providers (ISPs) to gather information on customers engaged in illegal file-sharing, and forcing them to contact repeat offenders warning them that their behaviour is against the law.

 

 

 

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