Hi, here is your weekly round-up of highlights from OUT-LAW News. As always, there are plenty of other stories from this week. You can also access our archive of weekly emails. A UK law which allows companies to force people to retire at 65 or at that company's specified retirement age does not necessarily breach European Union laws, the EU's highest court said today. The trade body for the online advertising industry has produced guidelines for companies to follow to ensure that behavioural advertising does not breach users' rights to privacy. Privacy activists have said the rules do not protect users enough. Companies are being urged to implement software escrow agreements as more and more firms go bust. One legal expert said that companies should go further and assess their whole software supply chain to protect against the effects of the downturn. The Council of Ministers of the 27 EU nations has rejected plans that would expand the scope of a European Union security breach law beyond telecoms companies. The European Parliament and privacy watchdogs had called for the change. Companies that withhold all payment for goods or services in order to strengthen their hand in negotiations over disputed amounts will have to pay punitive interest on that money, the Court of Appeal has said. There should be no new exemption from copyright law for users' adaptations of copyright-protected content, the UK Government has said. To create such an exemption for user-generated content would ignore the rights of content creators, it said.
This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM
Forced retirement due to age can be justified, rules ECJ
05/03/2009Industry’s behavioural ad guidelines criticised by digital rights group
05/03/2009Software escrow can serve as credit crunch insurance, says expert
04/03/2009EU nations oppose extension of data breach notification law
03/03/2009Companies must pay up undisputed amounts to avoid punitive interest, says Court of Appeal
02/03/2009UK opposes copyright exemptions for mash-ups
02/03/2009
Friday, 6 March 2009
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