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Companies prepare for European data protection reform

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union
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  • November 29 2011

On 28 November 2011 Viviane Reding, the Vice-President of the European Commission and EU Justice Commissioner, laid the foundation for a comprehensive reform of European data protection laws that will impact every business that operates in the European Union, including US multi-nationals

A database of fixture lists does not benefit from copyright protection says Attorney General Mengozzi: Football Dataco v Yahoo

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union
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  • December 15 2011

In a non-binding opinion released on 15 December 2011, Attorney General Mengozzi said that a database of football league fixture lists does not benefit from copyright protection under Directive 969EC (the Database Directive) as it does not constitute the original intellectual creation of its author

Online behavioural advertising: EU compliance update for 2012

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union
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  • December 15 2011

In 2011 all 27 European Union Member States were required to implement changes to the revised E-Privacy Directive relating to online behavioural advertising and tracking technologies into national law

European data protection reform: summary of the 25 January 2012 announcement

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union
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  • January 25 2012

The European Commission has just released a new and comprehensive rewrite of European Union data protection law which, if adopted by the European Parliament, promises to have a major impact on companies doing business in the European Union

The Advocate General considers the principle of exhaustion of rights in downloaded software

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 30 2012

In a decision that makes software developers' fight against piracy more difficult, a preliminary ruling by Advocate-General Bot in Case C-12811 UsedSoft v. Oracle has determined that users are allowed to re-distribute not only software that has been initially delivered on physical media whose ultimate origin can be verified, but also software that has been acquired by purely online means and whose legitimacy cannot be ascertained by consumers

Europe prepares for e-commerce overhaul - the digital single market’s call for change

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union
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  • September 6 2011

In late September 2011, the European Commission is expected to announce changes to the e-commerce regulatory environment in Europe

Cloud computing in the European Union

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • European Union
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  • April 13 2012

The cloud represents one of the most important changes in enterprise computing since the invention of the computer itself

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