We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics.
If you continue to browse Lexology, we will assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy.
Lexology logo
  Request new password

Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-10 of 26

Digital media update

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Australia, European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 25 2012

Welcome to the January edition of our quarterly Digital Media Update

Global action taken against global Microsoft Imposter telemarketing scam

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Australia, Canada, Global, USA
  • -
  • September 28 2012

Joint action between the ACMA, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has led to court orders being obtained against US-based and India-based parties involved in the global 'Microsoft Imposter' phone scam

Digital media update

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 12 2012

In our New Year Special Edition, we are taking a glimpse into the future and looking at what 2012 will hold for legal developments for the digital media industry

Superior Court of the State of Rio de Janeiro rejects preliminary injunction to prohibit internet company from displaying video reports relating to the World Cup

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Brazil
  • -
  • September 21 2010

The Superior Court of the State of Rio de Janeiro has rejected a request for a preliminary injunction filed by a television company against a large internet company which prohibited the latter from displaying on its website video reports about the World Cup for more than 48 hours after a game

Italian Data Protection Authority prohibits hidden profiling for online and radio promotions

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • October 25 2010

The Italian Data Protection Authority (the Garante) has recently intervened to stop activities resulting in the building of individual profiles based on personal preferences and habits that were made without giving prior information to the affected individuals

Creation of fake social networking profile infringes privacy

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • February 22 2011

The French High Court of Paris (TGI) sentenced an internet user who created a fake profile of a famous French comedian to pay a 1,500 fine and 2,500 in damages

Italian Communications Authority issues new regulations on linear Web TV and on-demand services

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • January 28 2011

AGCOM, the Italian Communications Authority, has adopted new rules on linear Web TV and on-demand audiovisual media services

Publishing house fined 300,000 for unauthorised data disclosure

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • May 17 2011

The Spanish Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the Spanish Data Protection Agency imposing a 300,000 fine on a publishing house for disclosing personal data of former clients to third companies for marketing purposes without obtaining the prior consent of the individuals concerned

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission accepts undertakings from software company

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 14 2010

Sports betting software company, Intervest Global Live Pty Ltd, has stopped an advertising campaign on SeekCommercial after the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) raised concerns regarding a horse betting software program called "Trilogics"

AGCOM launches a public consultation to further investigate critical issues relating to VoIP and P2P mobile network services

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • May 24 2011

The Italian Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM) has issued Resolution No. 3911CONS to approve a study carried out by AGCOM on "consumer protection and competition safeguards with reference to VoIP and peer-to-peer (P2P) mobile network services" and to launch a public consultation in order to gather comments and input from telecommunications operators and interested parties