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EBay wins French case over liability for fakes
Cosmetics firm L'Oréal has failed in its bid to hold eBay responsible for the
sale of counterfeit goods in France. A French court said that the online auction site had done all that it had to to
stop counterfeit sales.
14/05/2009
House competition draw to go ahead after Gambling Commission probe
A controversial competition to win a house that was halted by the Gambling
Commission has been allowed to proceed.
13/05/2009
European Parliament abandons plan to extend data breach notification law
The European Parliament has dropped its insistence that a new requirement for
telecoms firms to tell customers when their personal data is in danger be extended to online banking, email or other
service providers.
13/05/2009
Google faces trade mark class action over AdWords
Google is facing an attempt to file a class action lawsuit over its US policy of
allowing companies to use trade marks they don't own to trigger their internet adverts. If it gathers enough
participants, the suit could be costly for the search giant.
12/05/2009
Data Protection Act should not be defamation substitute, says High Court judge
The Data Protection Act should not be a backup plan in failed defamation cases,
a High Court judge has said. Mr Justice Eady has rejected a claim that an allegedly libellous statement was also
a breach of the privacy law.
11/05/2009
Law firm web strategies: some thoughts after 10,000 pages of OUT-LAW
EDITORIAL: Law firms can get over-excited about things that don't work when they
consider online legal services. This is the 10,000th page we've added to OUT-LAW.COM so it seems as good a time
as any to explain our own approach.
08/05/2009
OUT-LAW Radio: Will companies soon face IT addiction lawsuits?
14/05/2009: We talk to an academic who says that companies need to change
the way they work today to avoid a raft of tech addiction suits in the
future
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