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31 Mar 2010
Courts will be able to force ISPs to block all UK access to websites that are suspected of being involved, or even likely to be involved, in copyright infringing behaviour under just-published Government plans.
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31 Mar 2010
The UK's press regulator has ruled against a mainstream publisher's blog for the first time. It said that Spectator contributor Rod Liddle's claims about crime and black people failed the accuracy requirement of the regulator's Code of Practice.
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31 Mar 2010
Google, Microsoft, eBay, telecoms companies and civil liberties groups in the US have called on the US government to update electronic privacy laws to take account of the internet and protect citizens from state snooping.
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30 Mar 2010
OPINION: ISPs, indexing services and other online service providers will rest a little easier this week after a High Court ruling yesterday that gave much-needed clarity to UK copyright law.
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30 Mar 2010
Telecoms regulator Ofcom will have the power to issue fines of £2 million for misuse of phone networks, an increase on current fines of £50,000.
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29 Mar 2010
A company which indexes and sorts postings to Usenet groups is liable for the copyright infringement of its users when they download films, software and television programmes, the High Court has said.
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29 Mar 2010
One in four underage children have profiles on social networking sites, according to research by media regulator Ofcom. The survey found that 25% of eight to 12-year-olds surveyed have a social networking profile.
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29 Mar 2010
A venture capital company that breached the confidentiality of businessmen who came to it with a proposition should only have to pay damages as compensation and not a share of their profits from the deal, the High Court has ruled.
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29 Mar 2010
A publisher should not be responsible for a libel created by the out-of-context publication of material by a search engine, the High Court has ruled.
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29 Mar 2010
Weekday morning magazine programme GMTV With Lorraine broke Ofcom's Broadcasting Code by allowing its consumer affairs expert Martin Lewis to continually direct viewers to his own web publishing business for details of deals he discussed.
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