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Sponsored search results do not infringe registered trade mark

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 28 2008

In a decision favourable to search engines, the English High Court has announced the first UK judgment on whether the use of keywords to generate sponsored search results amounts to trade mark infringement

Gambling Commission issues advice on remote gambling equipment

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 28 2008

The Gambling Commission (the UK’s gambling regulator) has recently issued advice on those elements of a gambling system which amount to ‘remote gambling equipment’, as defined in the Gambling Act 2005

Dutch court upholds incorporation of online terms and conditions referred to in hard copy contracts

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Netherlands
  • -
  • April 28 2008

Under Dutch law standard terms and conditions may be voidable if the other party has not been given sufficient opportunity to review these terms

Calls in Hong Kong for tighter control of user generated content

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • April 28 2008

A recent incident involving Hong Kong starlet, Edison Chen, has raised questions about how Hong Kong legislation controls user generated content

Individual awarded £750 compensation in spam case

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 28 2007

A Scottish court has awarded £750 plus expenses (a total of £864) to an individual against Internet service provider Transcom Internet Services Ltd (“Transcom”

Certain blogs of “special character” required to moderate forum members’ posts before publication

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Netherlands
  • -
  • March 18 2008

On 1 November 2007, the Dutch court ruled that the Dutch paedophilia association Martijn must take measures to prevent pictures of the children of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima being published on a forum on their website

ECJ rules against collecting society in file sharer identification dispute

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Spain
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  • March 18 2008

In a decision of 29 January 2008 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that Member States are not obliged to create a legal duty on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to disclose the personal details of file sharers to copyright owners whose rights have been infringed

1,000,000 fine for distributing unsolicited software

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Netherlands
  • -
  • March 18 2008

The Dutch Telecom Regulator (“OPTA”) has imposed a 1,000,000 fine on three Dutch companies trading under the name DollarRevenue, and their two directors for distributing unsolicited software

User identity behind dynamic IP addresses - a minefield for authorities and ISPs

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Germany
  • -
  • March 18 2008

Generally German law does not entitle rights holders to request disclosure of information about customers who have taken illegal actions (i.e. copyright infringement by sharing protected material) from an internet service provider ("ISP"

User-generated content and ISP liability in France

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • February 4 2009

The question of liability of internet service providers has become a crucial issue worldwide due in particular to the recent development of the web 2.0 and the increase in the popularity of peer to peer file sharing

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