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 - Last chance to win!*** 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 ***Google is hiring!*** Google are looking for technology savvy, creative but practical thinkers to further build their legal department across Europe and tackle a wide range of UK and other European issues. They currently have a variety of roles open to qualified lawyers with various degrees of professional experience. See: http://www.google.co.uk/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?loc_id=1113&dep_id=1090 ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. Not all data thieves face two-year prison threat The Government's planned two-year jail sentence for information thieves will not apply to people who steal or trade in information from most manual filing systems. Apart from some Government files, the penalties will only apply to electronic databases. 15/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7775 2. Forwarding an email can infringe copyright Business letters can be protected by copyright and forwarding them to others can be an infringement, the High Court has ruled. The decision could have implications for email communication because the same principles will apply. 14/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7768 3. UK workers find love in the office, regardless of company policy As cards and flowers wind their way through office postal systems for St Valentine's Day research has revealed that one in six workers have had a relationship with their boss. Almost 60% of workers have had romantic encounters with workmates. 14/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7760 4. Why the Belgian court ruled against Google EDITORIAL: Every search engine should obtain permission from a website before copying its pages or even snippets of text, according to a ruling by a Belgian court today. 13/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7759 5. Bogus online reviews face EU ban Business people who write fake reviews of their own products will fall foul of new European laws from next year. Laws banning businesses from misleading consumers will bar the act. 13/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7756 6. European Commission will overhaul consumer law to boost e-commerce The European Commission will overhaul European contract law to make internet selling easier, more reliable and more efficient. The Commission has opened consultation on proposed changes that will affect eight EU Directives. 12/02/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7753 ***OUT-LAW Radio*** 15/02/2007: We talk to the man behind a company that represents the growing legion of citizen photo-journalists to the big boys of old media, and keeps a few Royal Family secrets along the way. http://www.out-law.com/page-7212 ***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.)