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Google has offered to differentiate results for its own "specialised search services" from others displayed in its search engine listings as one of a number of measures aimed at addressing EU competition concerns.
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The use of Internet Protocol (IP) address sharing technology will not prevent individuals from being identified as the perpetrators of illegal online activity, BT has claimed.
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New legislation that will impact on the UK's intellectual property (IP) law framework has received Royal Assent.
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The absence of 'metadata' from digital files will not automatically mean that creative material would be 'orphan works', the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has said.
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The ERRA is controversial because it is a different solution to that proposed by the EU Directive, it is not limited to memory institutions such as archives, libraries and museums, but it is a broad commercial-use licensing scheme.
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A major cloud services provider has begun building a data centre in the UK after admitting that data protection concerns have so far held back its efforts to win government contracts here.
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Businesses would have to show that they have suffered, or are likely to suffer, "substantial financial loss" as a result of comments published about them in order to bring a case for defamation, under proposed reforms to UK libel laws.
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Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard What's New in Digital Scholarship: Why journalists link (or why they don't ...
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A UK technology firm that provides internet maps has initiated legal action against Google in the High Court in which it has claimed that it has been the victim of anti-competitive practices engaged in by the internet giant.
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Courts can calculate trade mark infringement damages based on a hypothetical licensing arrangement, the High Court has said.
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Google wins YouTube copyright case on DMCA ruling iT News Doctorow, who licensed his book under Creative Commons so that it could be distributed freely, was reportedly angered by the decision and called for immedate action against the Hollywood...
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Data protection authorities in the EU cannot deem US firms' self-certified compliance with the EU-US' Safe Harbor data protection framework as not offering adequate data protection in a cloud context, a US Government body has said.
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Explainer: what is geoblocking? ScienceAlert Geoblocks are the extension of this concept online – website administrators, such as those who manage video-streaming sites such as BBC's iPlayer, Netflix and ABC iView use geoblocks to limit their...
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We have had lots of questions from stakeholders and partners about how to best manage rights-related information, covering both City-owned and externally-sourced assets. Copyright still matters. We plan to ...
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Salon Forget copyright! We've always stolen music Salon Businesses and rights owners often seek to squelch unauthorized use of their works, but sometimes they look to piracy for cues about new sources of value and even potential benefits from the...
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Photographers and other rights holders will help define what constitutes a 'diligent search' for the author of copyrighted material as part of reforms to rules on 'orphan works' licensing, Out-Law.com has learned.
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The Cabinet Office has outlined the criteria that a new organisational standard for private sector cyber security should meet.
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Insurance companies should obtain the "explicit consent" of drivers if they wish to share those individuals' personal telematics data with "non-essential" third parties, a trade body has recommended.
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Corporate groups that provide personal data processing services to other firms in the EU must decide whether they are willing to expose one group member to greater liability for those activities by putting in place 'binding corporate rules' (BCRs)...
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We have had lots of questions from stakeholders and partners about how to best manage rights-related information, covering both City-owned and externally-sourced assets. Copyright still matters. We plan to ...
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A body representing the views of governments around the world has recommended that ICANN place restrictions on the ability of companies to act as registrants for web addresses rooted at some proposed new online domains.
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For all the wonderful conversations that Creative Commons has started, I remain convinced that the only license they've put out that's actually useful is CC0: the one that releases your entire work into the public domain.
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The UK Supreme Court has asked the EU's highest court to rule on whether the temporary copies that computers make to allow material to be read online breach copyright laws.
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PBS MediaShift Idea Lab How to Get Social Media Platforms to Support Private Speech PBS MediaShift Idea Lab An example of this is Flickr and YouTube's support, if not promotion, of Creative Commons licenses.
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has asked the Home Office to provide it with some information about proposed reforms to UK surveillance laws so as to help the watchdog decide whether the Government department has to disclose the...
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