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 ***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. Monitoring of employee breached human rights, says European court The monitoring by a Welsh college of an employee's email, phone and internet use was a breach of her human rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The UK Government must pay £3,000 damages and legal costs in the case. 04/04/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7936 2. Apple strikes deal with EMI but European regulators are not pacified EMI and Apple have agreed to sell the record label's entire non-Beatles back catalogue without digital rights management restrictions, but the music industry faces increased pressure to change the way it sells digital music. 04/04/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7933 3. Hacker McKinnon loses extradition appeal NASA hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal at the High Court against his extradition to the US to face a trial by prosecutors who allegedly told him he "would fry". McKinnon's lawyers will seek leave to appeal to the House of Lords. 03/04/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7930 4. Home Office publishes data retention proposal The Home Office has published draft Regulations to require the retention of certain call data by phone companies for 12 months. Internet telephony and internet access data will not be covered for the time being. 03/04/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7929 5. Lords decline to hear McKennitt privacy case The House of Lords today refused an author permission to appeal a ban on her book, ending a case that will be seen as a landmark in the development of an English privacy law. 30/03/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7923 6. IP Directive to harmonise criminal law across Europe A European Parliament committee has voted in favour of an EU-wide law which would criminalise intentional infringements of an intellectual property right on a commercial scale. 30/03/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7920 ***OUT-LAW Radio*** As Charlie McCreevy gives European patent reform one last chance, we ask: can he break a 30-year deadlock? 05/04/2007 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.)