‘Novelist Jeanette Winterson has caused a minor storm on Twitter by posting pictures of a rabbit she killed, cooked and ate after it entered her garden. But what does the law in England and Wales say on the issue, asks Justin Parkinson.’
BBC News, 18th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Mass surveillance of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, and even Google searches, is permissible because these are “external communications”, according to the government’s most senior security official.’
The Guardian, 17th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Jake Newsome was jailed last week for posting offensive comments online. His is the latest in a string of cases that have led to prison terms, raising concern that free speech may be under threat from over-zealous prosecutors.’
The Guardian, 13th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Since Tuesday, running a personal website has become a privacy minefield for people using .uk domain names. A recent rule change by Nominet, the company which manages the .uk registry, means that domain name owners whose home addresses were previously kept private may now be publicly visible in online searches. People setting up domain names through Nominet must now also show their full legal personal or business name on the public registration database.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Article 5 of Parliament and Council Directive 2001/29/EC of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society meant that the copies on a user’s computer screen and the copies in the Internet “cache” of that computer’s hard disk, made by an end-user in the course of viewing a website, satisfied the conditions that those copies had to be temporary, that they had to be transient or incidental in nature and that they had to constitute an integral and essential part of a technological process, as well as the conditions laid down in article 5(5) of that Directive, and that they could therefore be made without the authorisation of the copyright holders.’
WLR Daily, 5th June 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Copyright law struggles to keep up with developing technology. In February’s Svensson decision the European court said that using hyperlinks to access material already freely available on the internet did not infringe.’
Technology Law Update, 9th June 2014
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
‘The “best friend” of Woolwich killer Michael Adebolajo has been jailed at the Old Bailey for encouraging terrorism in lectures he broadcast over the internet.’
The Guardian, 6th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Internet users who visit a website are safe from the threat of a copyright lawsuit, thanks to a landmark case which concluded in the European court of justice on Thursday.’
The Guardian, 5th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The government wants to do more to recover criminal assets. Joshua Rozenberg asks why – till now, at least – it has proved so difficult to deprive villains of their loot.’
BBC Law in Action, 3rd June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who posted an offensive message on Facebook after the killing of Leeds teacher Ann Maguire has been jailed.’
BBC News, 4th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Right Hon. The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales speech at the Society for Computers and Law Annual Lecture.’
Judiciary of England & Wales, 29th May 2014
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘National laws on protecting privileged legal communications are outdated and need to be brought into the digital age, according to the body representing Europe’s lawyers.’
Legal Futures, 2nd June 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Google has today announced how it intends to deal with the European Court’s judgment in the Google Spain case. In today’s Financial Times Google’s CEO, Larry Page, has confirmed that Google will take steps to recognise individuals’ “right to be forgotten” in appropriate cases. It will do so by introducing an online mechanism for users to request the removal from search results of links to data that are outdated.’
RPC Privacy Law, 30th May 2014
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
‘A man has been ordered not to contact Coldplay singer Chris Martin and Countdown presenter Rachel Riley after sending hundreds of abusive tweets.’
BBC News, 31st May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The High Court has found a man liable for copyright infringement carried out on the file sharing Newzbin websites and ruled that he also part of a conspiracy to infringe copyrights and defraud film studios.’
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd May 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The Lord Chief Justice has said the country has a “once in a lifetime” opportunity to build a proper court IT system, and failing to make a success of it would be a “disaster”. In a strongly-worded speech highly critical of previous court IT failures, Lord Thomas said that if the Courts Service and the judiciary squandered the £300-£400m promised by the Treasury, it would “not be forgotten” and “we would not be given that money again”.’
Litigation Futures, 21st May 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘An internet banner advertisement by an Essex law firm which showed a woman’s face above the slogan “awarded £40,000 after cosmetic surgery – claim now” was misleading, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 21st May 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Privacy campaigners are seeking to stop GCHQ using “unlawful hacking” to help its surveillance efforts.’
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BBC News, 13th May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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