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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