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. Corporate Risk Benchmarking Survey In the wake of various corporate scandals, businesses are subject to intense public scrutiny driving yet even more regulation and enforcement, and increasingly, we are asked by our clients to help. In this first Corporate Risk benchmarking survey, we are looking to understand what most concerns businesses. We will present and publish the results, with our analysis, later in the year. A computerised method of processing images and categorising features within it into database-searchable words is not excluded from patentability, a hearing officer at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has ruled. Creative industry representatives have been asked to give their views on whether the UK's current copyright licensing system is fit for the digital age. Comet sold fake CDs containing illegally copied software to UK consumers, Microsoft has claimed. Online gamblers could turn to unregulated markets if Government plans to tax betting operators on the basis of where bets are placed are introduced, a report commissioned by a leading betting operator has said. Compliance with an industry code on online behavioural advertising (OBA), will not necessarily bring web operators into line with EU privacy laws, privacy watchdogs have warned. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is to give "particular regulatory attention" to health organisations as it focuses on areas most likely to result in damage to people's information rights, the watchdog has said. The Government has lodged an appeal against last month's High Court ruling that its proposals to reduce solar panel energy generation subsidies was "legally flawed", it has confirmed. India is to lift restrictions preventing international investors from directly funding companies and projects in the country. Plans to extend new solvency requirements for insurance schemes to pension funds could cost UK businesses an extra £600 billion, according to a new report. Whole scale reform of public sector pensions in the UK must take into account more factors than mere cost savings, a pensions law expert has said. BP did not indemnify the company which provided cementing services for the Deepwater Horizon oil rig against the costs of a 2010 explosion which resulted in the largest oil spill in US history, it has said. This is a weekly email for subscribers of Out-Law.com, a website with more than 10,000 pages of free legal news and guidance. If and when you need further advice, we hope you'll choose Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com.
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TMT & Sourcing & IP
Image processing software not excluded from patentability, IPO rules
05/01/2012Views sought on UK's copyright licensing system
05/01/2012Software giant suing UK retailer over alleged fake sales
05/01/2012Unregulated betting could increase if Government changes remote licensing regime, study says
05/01/2012Privacy watchdogs deem advertising code non-compliant with EU cookies laws
04/01/2012ICO's enforcement of information rights to focus on health sector
04/01/2012Property
Government lodges feed-in tariff ruling appeal
05/01/2012Projects and construction
India lifts restrictions to allow international investment
05/01/2012Pensions
Extending Solvency II to pension schemes could cost UK businesses an extra £600bn, report says
05/01/2012Cost savings only part of public sector pension reform picture, expert says
05/01/2012Energy
BP pursues claim for costs of Deepwater Horizon accident against contractor Halliburton
04/01/2012
Friday 6 January 2012
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