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. 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. A controversial competition to win a house that was halted by the Gambling Commission has been allowed to proceed. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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
This week's news on OUT-LAW.COM
EBay wins French case over liability for fakes
14/05/2009House competition draw to go ahead after Gambling Commission probe
13/05/2009European Parliament abandons plan to extend data breach notification law
13/05/2009Google faces trade mark class action over AdWords
12/05/2009Data Protection Act should not be defamation substitute, says High Court judge
11/05/2009Law firm web strategies: some thoughts after 10,000 pages of OUT-LAW
08/05/2009
Friday, 15 May 2009
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