Amendments to European DP regulation *

European Union - January 11 2013
Jan Philipp Albrecht, a Rapporteur for the European Parliament, released his new report on the proposed European Data Protection Regulation, which…

Co-authors: Ruth Boardman, Ariane Mole.

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Israel recognised for ensuring adequate data protection *

European Union, Israel - February 2 2011
The European Commission's decision to approve the State of Israel's status as a country ensuring an "adequate level of protection" under the European Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 1 February 2011 (OJ L 27, 1.2.2011, p. 39) and is in force as of now.

Co-authors: Ruth Boardman, Ludo Deklerck, Ariane Mole.

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German DENIC introduces one and two-letter domains for “.de” top-level domain *

Germany - January 11 2010
With effect from 23 October 2009 DENIC, the administrator of “.de” top-level domains, has changed its domain name guidelines to allow registration of second-level domains consisting only of one or two letters or consisting only of numbers

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The battle for a unified media market *

European Union - January 8 2010
A common policy agenda for an efficient online media market is badly needed.

Co-authors: Helene Miksche, Morten Nissen.

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Regional Court of Hamburg decides that online TV service Zattoo is illegal without right holders’ consent – collecting societies’ and broadcasters’ consent is irrelevant *

Germany - December 14 2009
In a dispute between film studios Warner and Universal against the German offering zattoo.de of online TV service Zattoo, the Regional Court Hamburg decided on 8 April 2009 (ref. no. 308 O 660/08) that zattoo.de must not retransmit TV content without the consent of the original right holders.

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