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. You can also now access our archive of weekly emails at http://www.out-law.com/page-7793. The OUT-LAW Team ***Free OUT-LAW Breakfast Seminars*** London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh April 2007: Protecting your name on the net May 2007: Overseas transfers of personal data See: http://www.out-law.com/page-6024 ***Blogging 4 Business: How social media is changing your business*** A must attend for executives from the fields of corporate communications, corporate and social responsibility, internal communications, public relations, marketing services and advertising, this one-day masterclass in navigating the landscape of blogs, podcasts and social networks draws on the expertise of some of the most respected social media strategists and practitioners. See: http://www.retailevents.co.uk/b4b2007/site/index.htm ***Infosecurity Europe*** Infosecurity Europe is Europe's number one, dedicated Information Security event held on the 24th-26th April 2007, Grand Hall, Olympia. Now in its 12th year, the event continues to provide an unrivalled education programme, new products & services, exhibitors and visitors from every segment of the industry. See: http://www.infosec.co.uk/outlaw ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. Ideas behind computer games can be copied, says Court of Appeal General ideas and structures behind computer games and programs can be copied as long as the source code and graphics are not, the Court of Appeal has ruled. 22/03/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7896 2. CD WOW! loses six-year parallel import battle with music industry A group of record labels has won its High Court case against online music retailer CD WOW!, which was found to have infringed copyright and been in contempt of court over an earlier order. 20/03/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7891 3. RFID chips will force changes to Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive The European Commission will make changes to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive to take account of the exploding market in radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, it has said. Amendments will be proposed by the middle of this year. 20/03/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7890 4. 'Bloody foreigners' is racist taunt, say Lords It can be racist to make reference to 'bloody foreigners' even if the insult is no more specific than that, the House of Lords has ruled. 20/03/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7886 5. Mobile phones and computer chips face new VAT rules Mobile phones and computer chips will be subject to a new VAT accounting system from 1st June 2007 in a Government move calculated to tackle VAT fraud. HMRC says the new regime will make it harder for criminals to steal VAT. 19/03/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7885 6. Cricket simulation beats Newsnight painting as copyright dodge, says expert A cricketing website has found what it hopes is an inventive way to bypass copyright laws to show users action from the Cricket World Cup. 16/03/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7883 ***OUT-LAW Radio*** We discover that operators of now-controversial premium rate phone quizzes will soon need lottery licences, and we find out when it's OK for one game developer to copy another. 22/03/2007 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 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.)