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19 Jan 2011
Italy's competition regulator has asked the Italian parliament to reform copyright law after accepting Google's settlement of a dispute with newspapers. It does not have the power to solve the problem of the exploitation of newspaper content, it said....
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18 Jan 2011
The winner of a competition for a house has been awarded his first prize – of £12,500. The operators of the competition said they had not sold enough of the 150,000 tickets on offer to be able to give away the house.
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18 Jan 2011
The Government will publish new guidelines on bribery, it has said. The rules will help companies to comply with the Bribery Act which was passed last year.
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17 Jan 2011
A single body will be put in charge of how data generated by publicly owned bodies is used, the Government has said. It has outlined plans for a Public Data Corporation (PDC) to manage data and license it to others.
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14 Jan 2011
An interpreter has won £30,000 in libel damages over claims in an email sent to fellow interpreters which claimed that she abused her position in a trade body to further her private interests.
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13 Jan 2011
The Government will scrap the default retirement age (DRA) later this year, despite calls from business to continue to allow them to force workers to retire at 65.
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13 Jan 2011
Businesses which inadvertently cause damage to the environment will be able to offer to make up for that damage without resorting to court under new powers given to the environmental regulator.
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12 Jan 2011
Rights owners should have to register with EU authorities in order to exercise all their rights under copyright law, the European Commission has been advised.
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11 Jan 2011
Most piracy and counterfeit goods sales happen through websites hosted in Europe or America, a brand protection consultancy has said.
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07 Jan 2011
The European Union's data protection regulators have published guidance on when a country's data protection laws apply to the collection and use of personal data.
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