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 ***The Outsourcing Summit*** The UK's no.1 platform for sharing best practices London, 19th and 20th November 2007 See: http://www.marketforce.eu.com/outsourcing/ ***This week's highlights from OUT-LAW News*** 1. Blank media levy breaches should be criminal, say authors Breaches of the European copyright levy system on blank media should be criminalised, a report by an authors' group says. The report is an attempt to convince the European Commission not to scrap the levy. 08/11/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8620 2. Government postpones company law reforms until October 2009 The date when significant parts of the Companies Act come into force has been put back a year. It will now be 1st October 2009 instead of 1st October 2008, according to the UK Government. 07/11/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8618 3. Nine second delay sinks unfair dismissal claim A case of unfair dismissal was not heard by an Employment Tribunal because the application was received nine seconds too late. The late submission was made by a law student charging £120 per hour. 06/11/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8616 4. Wikipedia not liable for libel, rules French court The Wikimedia Foundation is not responsible for defamatory comments published in its user-generated encyclopaedia Wikipedia, a French court has ruled. The comments had been removed quickly after being notified to the site operators. 06/11/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8615 5. NHS will not appeal landmark FOI extension into private sector NHS Lothian will not appeal the decision of the Scottish Information Commissioner that forced the publication of a £1.2 billion private finance initiative (PFI) hospitals contract. 05/11/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8606 6. US privacy groups seek online ad-tracking opt-out Online privacy activists are lobbying US telecoms regulators to create an internet advertising block list like the 'do not call' list that blocks telemarketing calls. 05/11/2007 http://www.out-law.com/page-8607 ***OUT-LAW Radio: Privacy battle rages*** The privacy chiefs of Europe and Google battle over privacy rights and whether technology or the law should protect us. 01/11/2007 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.)