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 ***Pinsent Masons is recruiting lawyers*** Commercial IP lawyer (3–5 years' experience) Our intellectual property team is one of the largest in the UK and we're seeking to add an IP commercial lawyer to our London team. Find out more about this vacancy and many others. http://www.out-law.com/page-8369 ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. Facebook given green light for contact-poaching case against ConnectU Facebook has been allowed to proceed with a law suit against a company which it believes wrote software to gain unauthorised access to Facebook address books in order to promote rival firm ConnectU. 15/08/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8386 2. PCC raps paper over online video The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has issued its first ever ruling on video content published online by a newspaper. It said that the Hamilton Advertiser breached school pupils' rights to privacy with a video of an unruly classroom. 15/08/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8385 3. ISPs tell BBC to pay for iPlayer bandwidth Internet service providers (ISPs) have warned the BBC that it could have to pay to distribute its content over the internet. They say that large numbers of people watching television content online will strain their networks. 15/08/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8384 4. SCO loses long-running UNIX case Novell owns the copyrights in the UNIX operating system contested by SCO, a judge has ruled in one of the tech world's longest running and most complicated legal cases. SCO shares lost over 70% of their value on the news. 14/08/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8381 5. Sky-Amstrad deal probed by watchdog Competition regulators are to scrutinise BSkyB's £125m acquisition of Amstrad to see if the deal will hit competition in the TV technology market. 13/08/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8378 6. Lords call for ethical hacker protection and security-breach notification law The Government must stop changes to an anti-hacking law criminalising the work of security researchers, a House of Lords Committee has said. If it does not, internet security could become an even bigger danger because 'ethical hacking' will be illegal. 10/08/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8374 ***OUT-LAW Radio*** We talk to the man behind a new market with a difference: it sells IT security secrets to the highest bidder. 16/08/2007 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.)