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ICO launches consultation on a press code of practice

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 12 2013

The ICO has launched a short consultation on a proposed new, voluntary data protection code of practice for the press. Following his consideration of

ICO adds media and press data protection advice section to its website

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 12 2013

In order to fulfill one of the commitments made in response to the Leveson Report, the ICO has added a media data rights advice section to its

Getting back to basics - has sport become over-lawyered?

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 8 2013

In 1998, when I first started practising as a sports lawyer, it is fair to say that in the UK at least this was still something of a novelty as a

ICO response to Leveson Report

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 4 2013

Part H of the Leveson Report contains detailed commentary on the DPA and the operation of the ICO. The ICO has issued a response to this. It accepts

Ofcom fines Playboy for failing to protect children

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 4 2013

Ofcom fined Playboy £100,000 for having inadequate age verification systems in place as part of their access controls. Ofcom disagreed with Playboy’s

Misleading advertising in the UK leads to 13 months jail time - the market sees an increasingly tough approach to advertising regulation in the UK

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 22 2011

You may recall the recent scandal involving two brothers, Victor and Henry Mears, who promised an "amazing snow-covered Lapland village" to the consumers of Dorset only to deliver, in the words of Judge Mark Horton, "something that looked like an averagely-managed summer car boot sale"

Ofcom consultation on 'procedures for handling broadcasting complaints, investigations and sanctions'

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 8 2011

Ofcom is inviting feedback from stakeholders in response to some proposed new procedures to handle future investigations into and sanctions for breaches of broadcast licences and investigations into fairness and privacy complaints

Ofcom broadcasting code review commercial references in television and radio programming

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 8 2011

Ofcom has concluded its 2009 and 2010 consultations on the broadcasting code and has issued its final statements relating to commercial references in television programmes and commercial communications in radio programmes

Opinion of the Advocate General threatens the revenues of sports rights holders

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • February 4 2011

The Advocate General delivered an Opinion yesterday in a test case on the ability of sports rights holders under EU law to limit the rights granted to satellite broadcasters to a given national territory

Advocate General Kokott delivers Opinion in reference for preliminary ruling regarding broadcasting of football matches

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 1 2011

On 3 February 2011, Advocate General Kokott delivered her Opinion in a reference for a preliminary ruling regarding the territorial limitations on the export of decoder cards as a key part of a system of territorial limitations on exclusive licensing of satellite TV broadcasting of top level (English Premier League) football matches

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