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A picture is worth two thousand... pounds

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 8 2009

Getty Images, the stock photography agency, has won another litigation dispute over unauthorised use of one of its digital images

Previous Phorm?

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 6 2009

The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) have published a new set of Good Practice Principles in relation to Behavioural Advertising, an increasingly popular way of targeting advertising to internet users

Court saves Oink creator's bacon in file-sharing ‘ambush'

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 18 2010

The creator of the BitTorrent tracking site Oink's Pink Palace (Oink), Alan Ellis, has been cleared of conspiracy to defraud the music industry by a jury at Teesside Crown Court

ICO takes a common sense approach to being street-wise

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 23 2009

The ICO has today announced that a common sense approach should be taken when dealing with Google Street View

Contentious clauses, Lord Lucas and better broadband - welcome to Digital Britain

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 22 2010

The controversial clause of the Digital Economy Bill which allows the Secretary of State to make changes to copyright law using secondary legislation, is to be diluted after a severe backlash from consumer groups, members of the public, businesses and several members of the House of Lords

An artistic licence? The Digital Economy Bill is published

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 26 2009

The UK Parliament has now published the Digital Economy Bill, which makes a number of controversial amendments to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and includes key provisions relating to the regulation of online file-sharing and copyright protection and licensing generally

Flash cookies: is the EU about to make them crumble?

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 13 2010

Today, "cookies" are an essential function of many websites seeking to sell products and services to their users; however, since their "birth", cookies have created privacy issues due to their user behaviour tracking capabilities

Can you tell your blogging employees to blog off?

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 4 2010

The issue of social networking in the context of employment has reared its ugly head once again, this time in relation to English football's biggest club, Manchester United

3 strikes and we'll. do something - the Ofcom consultation

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 9 2010

Ofcom is inviting comment on the consultation paper it issued last week proposing a "Code" for implementing the new Digital Economy Act 2010

Facebook - it's all fun and games until somebody loses an I.D.

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 19 2010

Social networking giant, Facebook, has admitted that some applications (or "apps") hosted on its site have been transmitting user-identifying information to online advertising and internet-tracking companies