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Peer to peer (P2P) legislation

  • Abril Abogados
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  • Canada, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 13 2012

Since 2006, when the first European Regulation against illegal downloading was enacted by Finland, most of EU Member States have followed the example

The global employer: the social media issue

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • September 25 2012

Social media is changing the way that we communicate, work and do business, wherever we are in the world

U.K. defamation law may lead to greater protection for Canadian website operators

  • Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
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  • Canada, United Kingdom
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  • June 26 2012

Canadian website operators may indirectly benefit from proposed legislation in the United Kingdom increasing protection in that country from liability for user content

How much is that Tweet in the window?

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
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  • Canada, United Kingdom
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  • January 13 2011

A Tweet may represent a mere 140-characters; however a recent investigation in the UK is exposing that those 140-characters can represent big money

Online celebrity endorsements in Canada, the US and the UK

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada, United Kingdom
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  • January 12 2011

In the UK, the Daily Mail is reporting that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will be monitoring celebrity tweets for undisclosed paid endorsements

Online defamation - the need for digital corrections

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada, United Kingdom
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  • July 29 2010

The recent English Court of Appeal decision in Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd. 2010 EWCA Civ 804 provides some useful (and, thankfully, technologically adept) advice for online news publishers

Disclosure of website users’ identity

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Canada, United Kingdom
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  • November 6 2007

A recent English case provides guidelines concerning when a court should order a website operator to disclose the source of defamatory material posted on a website