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 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 Please note: All London events are fully booked October 2007: Promotions: the new regime for prize draws and competitions November 2007: How to monitor employees legally See: http://www.out-law.com/page-6024 ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. Facebook made basic error with poor user safeguards, says lawyer Facebook has agreed to add safeguards to protect children from predators, obscene content and harassment after New York prosecutors threatened the social networking site with fraud charges for failing to live up to its own safety claims. 18/10/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8563 2. Tidy-hair policy does not discriminate against Rastafarians, says EAT Rastafarians are protected by UK laws that ban workplace discrimination on the grounds of philosophical belief. But a tidy-hair policy does not discriminate against someone with dreadlocks, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled. 18/10/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8561 3. US court demands stronger copyright filters for Morpheus A permanent injunction has been imposed on the distributor of the Morpheus file-sharing software. A US court ruled yesterday that StreamCast Inc. must use "the most effective means available to reduce the infringing capabilities of the system." 17/10/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8557 4. US Patent Office decimates Amazon's 1-Click Patent Most of the claims in Amazon's controversial patent for shopping with a single mouse click have been rejected by the US Patent Office. It follows a campaign by a New Zealander who filed evidence of prior art with funding from readers of his blog. 17/10/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8556 5. Author and foreign court lose battle to remove libel from US site A US court has snubbed a ruling by a Canadian court that ordered the removal of defamatory comments from a US website. The author had also asked that his comments be removed, but the site refused to comply and the US court has supported that decision. 16/10/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8554 6. Proposed global privacy standard is too vague and too weak, says expert The set of rules which Google proposed as the foundation for a global privacy standard are inadequate, a privacy law expert has said. The rules are not specific enough to operate as a global standard, said the expert. 15/10/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8551 ***OUT-LAW Radio*** OUT-LAW Radio returns next week. Producer and presenter Matthew Magee is taking a well-earned holiday. Past episodes: 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.)