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24 Dec 2008
Google's privacy law expert has been appointed to a committee which will advise the European Commission on data protection policy. Google has previously clashed with EU privacy watchdogs on data protection issues.
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24 Dec 2008
A Japanese privacy group has asked Google to stop operating its Street View service there. The group says that the photographs of the country's streets violate a "basic right" to privacy.
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24 Dec 2008
A forensic examination of the software used by a Welsh business has been conducted under powers recently granted to Trading Standards officers under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.
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24 Dec 2008
The premium rate phone regulator has warned that it will take action against companies that facilitate fake-mobile scams as well as the companies directly behind them.
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23 Dec 2008
The Government has proposed changes to the way in which electronic goods are recycled and hopes that the move will reduce the administrative burden on businesses.
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23 Dec 2008
Mobile phone operators objecting to the sale of new spectrum must take their case through the courts and not the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT), the Court of Appeal has said. The CAT should not judge the legislative powers of Ofcom, it said.
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22 Dec 2008
The drummer in 1960s group The Animals has won the right to register a trade mark for the band's name despite opposition from singer Eric Burdon. John Steel has been granted the trade mark for services relating to recorded music and concerts.
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22 Dec 2008
Record label Warner Brothers will remove music it controls from the world's biggest video site YouTube, it said. The company had a deal with YouTube owner Google but said that talks over new terms have broken down.
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22 Dec 2008
The Government has asked the European Commission for permission to continue to deny dead artists' estates a royalty on art sales. It has sided with the art sale industry over artists in seeking to extend the denial of the royalty until 2012.
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19 Dec 2008
A client's signature on one document cannot be transferred to another and taken as approval of that second document, the High Court has said. Lawyers must ensure that the formalities of deeds and contracts are observed, said the Court's ruling.
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