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 ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. IP crimes Directive approved by European Parliament A controversial Directive which criminalises intellectual property violations in Europe was approved yesterday by the European Parliament but does not include its most controversial element, the criminalising of patent infringement. 26/04/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7999 2. October rule change won't be a data protection crisis, says expert A data protection 'crisis' predicted by some experts has been overblown, and the law change behind it will affect only a very few organisations, according to a leading data protection expert. 26/04/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7998 3. Attempt to limit FOI will be heard again on Friday A controversial bill seeking to exempt members of parliament from the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act will be heard again this Friday. The proposal was the subject of a five-hour filibuster in Parliament last week. 24/04/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7986 4. Comparative advertising rules clarified by European Court of Justice A company can fall foul of EU rules restricting comparative advertising even if its advert does not mention a specific company, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. 23/04/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7985 5. Barclays' chip and PIN readers will work for other banks Barclays Bank is introducing a handheld chip and PIN card reader for the home in an escalation of its online banking security. Other chip and PIN cards will work with the Barclays device, not just cards issued by Barclays. 20/04/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7981 6. ICANN wins court order against rogue registrar Controversial US domain registrar RegisterFly has been ordered by a US court to hand all its customer and domain name data to the internet's governing body for domain names so that they can be transferred to other registrars. 20/04/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-7982 ***OUT-LAW Radio*** Andrew Gowers speaks exclusively to OUT-LAW Radio on World Intellectual Property Day on the story behind his influential Government-commissioned review of IP. 26/04/2007 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.)