Hi, Here is your weekly round-up of highlights from OUT-LAW News. As always, click the links to read the full stories of the summaries below or see these and many other stories from this week's news at http://www.out-law.com/page-5951. The OUT-LAW Team ***Win a Wii for sharing your views on OUT-LAW*** We want to know what you think of OUT-LAW. If you take our 3 minute survey you could win a Nintendo Wii games console or a pair of sterling silver OUT-LAW cufflinks. See: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=650733254596 OUT-LAW Radio As Apple's Steve Jobs calls for DRM free music, we look at the legal basis and social impact of copy control technology in this week's 10-minute podcast. http://www.out-law.com/page-7212 ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. Email insult sacking was unfair, but blame shared, says Tribunal A woman whose email insults about her boss caused her to be sacked was unfairly dismissed, an Employment Tribunal has ruled. But she will not be reinstated and will only receive compensation of 12.5% of her losses because she was 75% to blame. 09/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7747 2. Lords oppose new media Directive The UK's thriving new media industry is under threat from proposed European Commission rules designed to protect the business of television broadcasters against new competition, according to a House of Lords committee. 08/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7742 3. NHS asks Lords to clarify freedom of information and data protection clash The House of Lords will clarify how data protection and freedom of information laws should work together if it hears an NHS appeal against an order to release clinical data. Any ruling would be a defining one for the two emerging areas of law. 07/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7740 4. Jobs' plea to abandon music DRM is scorned in Norway Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has blamed record labels for problems caused by digital rights management (DRM) and has said that he would throw away the restrictive DRM technology used by Apple's iTunes tomorrow if he could. 07/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7741 5. British Horseracing Board wins right to keep database prices high The British Horseracing Board has won a major court victory in its battle to capitalise on its racing database. The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court ruling that it had used its market dominance to over-charge a TV station for information. 06/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7733 6. European Parliament stands firm on cross-border defamation law The European Parliament has voted to make every EU member state take a common approach to cross-border privacy and defamation cases. The move follows a campaign by UK Liberal Democrat MEP Diana Wallis. 02/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7726 ***About this email*** This is a weekly email for subscribers of OUT-LAW.COM, a website run by international law firm Pinsent Masons of 30 Aylesbury Street, London, EC1R 0ER. Feel free to forward this email to your friends. If someone forwarded this email to you and you'd like your own subscription, register free at http://www.out-law.com. Existing subscribers: you can manage your profile at http://www.out-law.com/page-520. The email address for this subscription is <>. Feel free to give us your feedback on this email or OUT-LAW.COM by replying to this email. To unsubscribe, please reply with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. (We'd also appreciate you telling us why you've decided to unsubscribe.)