British Airways to Google-check passengers
The debate about open data and its appropriate uses has taken a new twist with news that British Airways has revealed plans to use the internet to create “dossiers” on passengers (Tomi Law) ... Read the full post ...
Enhanced cooperation task force for Internet governance?
An unconventional proposal to solve the international fight around internet governance has been put forward that would create multi-stakeholder working groups to tackle tough issues (IP Watch) ... Read the full post ...
Defamation may be different on the Internet, says Canadian court
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has reversed the dismissal of a proposed action for defamation in the context of online political discourse in the “blogosphere”. Oslers reports that in allowing the appeal and directing that the action proceed to trial, the court acknowledged that the “internet blogging world” is an environment where caustic commentary ... Read the full post ...
Google granted leave to appeal ‘AdWords’ case in Australia
The High Court of Australia has granted leave to Google to appeal the decision that found its AdWords sponsored links misled consumers. The Full Court of the Federal Court previously held that a sponsored link generated by the use of a keyword that is the trademark of another business constitutes a misleading representation by Google that ... Read the full post ...
Valid trademark defence not valid domain name defence in France
The Paris Court of Appeal has decided that while prior continuous use of a term as part of a company name, a trade name and signage could constitute a valid defence to a claim for trademark infringement, it could not justify registration and use of a .fr domain name containing that term (Hogan Lovells) ... Read the full post ...
US renews ICANN’s contract to run Internet naming functions
The US Department of Commerce has renewed for 5 years ICANN’s contract to administer the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions. The IANA functions to be discharged by ICANN include: the coordination of the assignment of technical Internet protocol parameters; the administration of certain responsibilities associated with the Internet DNS root zone management; the allocation of ... Read the full post ...
De novo review of UK domain name dispute resolution procedure not available
The UK High Court has ruled that there is no de novo court review of .uk domain name dispute resolution procedure decisions. According to the decision of Mann J in Michael Toth v. Emirates, the issue of abusive registration of a .uk domain name may be determined only by an expert appointed under the Nominet Dispute ... Read the full post ...
Google threatens to sue YouTube MP3 conversion sites
TorrentFreak reports that Google is threatening action against one of the web’s largest YouTube conversion sites. The site, YouTube-MP3.org, extracts MP3 audio from YouTube videos and makes it available for users to download. According to Google’s own statistics, the site attracts 1.3 million visits per day. Google is demanding that the website cease using the YouTube API ... Read the full post ...
Revised ‘three strikes’ draft code issued by UK regulator
Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, has revised its proposed code on ISP’s responsibility for online copyright infringements of their customers. The code sets out a ‘three strikes’ procedure, whereby: ISPs are required to maintain a list of customers who have been associated with three or more suspected online copyright infringements in any 12-month period; that list, ... Read the full post ...
Ninth Circuit in Veoh to consider the impact of Viacom
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court is reconsidering its Veoh decision on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”) copyright infringement safe harbor standards, in light of the Second Circuit’s decision in Viacom v. YouTube (Baker Hostetler) ... Read the full post ...
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