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Food and drink sector hot topic: Cruddas v Adams £45k for social media libel

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • February 18 2013

Brands in the food and drink sector are highly familiar with the use of social media to promote products and to create engaging marketing. This case

Food and drink sector hot topic: sponsored tweets a reminder of the ASA’s position

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 9 2013

The Advertising Standards Agency (which oversees advertising in the UK) has always said that adverts or marketing communications must be clear as such

TMT Legal Update: London chosen for Facebook's first engineering centre outside the US

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 12 2012

Facebook opened its first engineering centre outside of the US in London in October

TMT legal update: report reveals the scale of illegal music downloading

  • Eversheds LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 3 2012

Recently released statistics from Musicmetrics show the illegal downloading habits of the world by location

TMT Legal Update: Retailers count the cost of cyber crime

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 6 2012

The British Retail Consortium ("BRC") has raised concerns about the increasing threat from cyber criminals to the UK's e-commerce market

BIS launches proposals to reform consumer law on the supply of digital content

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 6 2012

In July 2012, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills ("BIS") published a consultation proposing the reform of consumer law in relation to the supply of goods, services and, for the purposes of this briefing, digital content (including games, music files, software, apps, films and e-books

Government publishes draft Communications Data Bill

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 8 2012

The Government published the eagerly awaited Communications Data Bill (the "Bill") on 13 June 2012

Cairns v Modi lessons from Twitter defamation case

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 12 2012

Brand owners in the Food & Drink sector, building on a tradition of innovative marketing strategies, have been at the forefront in embracing social media

TMT legal update: Facebook IPO overshadowed by regulatory investigation

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 7 2012

The eagerly anticipated Facebook IPO, the biggest tech IPO in US history, went ahead (eventually(!)) on 18 May 2012 raising over $18 billion

TMT legal update: research shows that businesses are unaware of ”unfair” terms in cloud contracts

  • Eversheds LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 7 2012

Précis Businesses are unaware of terms in cloud computing contracts which in effect hold them liable for failures by the cloud supplier