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 May 2007: Overseas transfers of personal data See: http://www.out-law.com/page-6024 ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. Google resumes linking to Belgian newspaper sites Google and Belgian newspaper group Copiepresse have come to an agreement on a minor part of their dispute over copyright, but have not agreed on the major point of difference between them. 03/05/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8021 2. Lords ruling for OK! could rein in the paparazzi The House of Lords ruled today that Hello! magazine broke the law when it published snatched shots of the wedding of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas. OK! magazine had paid £1 million for exclusive shots of the event. 02/05/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8018 3. Firm wins compensation for executive time wasted in dispute A printing firm has successfully won compensation for the wasted time of a company executive in a construction dispute. Bridge Communications was awarded £4,800 for the time which a senior executive spent dealing with the dispute. 01/05/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8010 4. Information Commissioner demands new powers Information Commissioner Richard Thomas will demand new powers from Parliament today. Thomas will tell a Parliamentary committee that an increase in his authority is essential to stop the UK becoming a surveillance society. 01/05/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8011 5. Microsoft wins Supreme Court case limiting US patent law The US Supreme Court has said that Microsoft cannot be punished for the breach of a US patent that takes place on foreign soil. The Court said that mass distributed software is not a 'component' eligible for US patent protection abroad. 01/05/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8013 6. ISPs urged to provide police with emergency contacts Internet service providers (ISPs) should provide 24-hour emergency contacts for police and security services, according to the ISP industry body the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA). 27/04/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8001 ***OUT-LAW Radio*** We talk to the man whose blogs, wikis and YouTube videos aim to bring down Yahoo! management, and to the lawyer taking on Google's AdWords system. 03/05/2007 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.)