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“UK’s safest broadband”: TalkTalk in breach of CAP and BCAP Code
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom
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- February 29 2012
TalkTalk’s adverts claiming to offer the “UK’s safest broadband” have been found to be in breach of the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) Code
Nominet proposes changes to UK generic top level domain name registration rules
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom
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- February 29 2012
Nominet, which runs one of the world’s largest internet registries and manages over nine million domain names, has proposed changing the rules of domain name registration for .ltd.uk, and .plc.uk domains to ensure that each company is entitled to a unique domain name
New generic top level domain application process launched
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- Global
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- February 29 2012
After more than seven years of planning, the application process for new generic top level domains (gTLDs) has been launched
Privacy and the cloud: an EU perspective
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- European Union
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- February 29 2012
By using cloud computing, companies cut costs by outsourcing data storage tasks, which means they no longer have to maintain expensive servers
Social networking sites could do more to protect minors’ privacy
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- European Union
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- November 29 2011
On 30 September 2011, the European Commission published a Report on an Assessment of the Implementation of the Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU
Nominet decisions may be subject to appeal to the High Court
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom
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- November 29 2011
In Michael Toth v Emirates 2011 EWPCC 18, his Honour Judge Birss QC, refused to strike out an application seeking to overturn a decision of a Nominet appeal panel that the registration of a domain name was abusive within the Nominet Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) Policy
Jurisdiction to award damages for online infringement of “personality rights” clarified
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- European Union
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- November 29 2011
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that victims of infringements of “personality rights” by means of the internet can chose to bring actions before the courts of the Member State in which they reside in respect of all the damage caused
Further CJEU guidance on keyword advertising and trade mark infringement
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- November 3 2011
In (1) Interflora Inc. (2) Interflora British Unit v (1) Marks & Spencer plc (2) Flowers Direct Online Ltd, Case C-32309 (22 September 2011), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has provided further guidance on circumstances in which use of a registered trade mark as a keyword by a third party advertiser may constitute trade mark infringement
How the cookie crumbles: a clash of cultures on cookie regulation
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- European Union
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- November 3 2011
The Article 29 Working Party has met with Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe and European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA) representatives to tell them in no uncertain terms that their otherwise well-received Best Practice Recommendation (BPR) and Framework on Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA) does not comply with the revised e-Privacy Directive provisions on cookies
Lifestyle Management Ltd v Frater: domain names and instruments of fraud
- McDermott Will & Emery
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- United Kingdom
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- February 28 2011
Pointing domain names, which are similar to a former principal's website, to websites that closely resembled the home page of the former principal has been found to be an act of passing off
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