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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  Cloud Computing Survey Do you use cloud computing in your business? Or are you a cloud provider? We want to hear from you in our new survey on what makes businesses use – and avoid – the cloud. Fill out this three minute survey to be in with a chance of winning an Archos 9 PC tablet.   This week's highlights from Out-Law News TMT & Sourcing and Intellectual Property ACTA 'clarifications' may follow despite another recommendation to reject the treaty The European Commission may provide "clarifications" about a controversial international treaty on intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement even if the agreement is ruled to be compliant with the fundamental principles of EU law, the EU's Trade Commissioner has said. 21/06/2012 Publishers and researchers clash over 'data mining' copyright exception Plans to enable researchers to use computerised techniques to read information contained in journal articles without infringing publishers' rights have drawn "strongly divided" views from the industry, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has said. 20/06/2012 Rights holders groups campaign for private copying exception to exclude cloud storage Limits should be placed on any new 'private copying' exemption introduced under UK copyright law to prevent individuals copying digital content into cloud storage services for private use, rights holder groups have said. 20/06/2012 Copyright rulings' impact on cloud computing investment should act as warning to UK law makers, expert says UK law makers and the judiciary should take note of new research that has claimed that a narrow reading of copyright law exceptions can result in an erosion of investment in new technologies, an expert has said. 19/06/2012 ICO issues second highest data breach fine for internet leak of sensitive health records A public health body in Northern Ireland has been ordered to pay a £225,000 fine after patient and staff records left at an abandoned hospital site were photographed by trespassers and posted on the internet. 19/06/2012 Security of personal data in the cloud more important than where it is stored, EU official says The security of personal data on cloud computing servers is more important than where the information itself is physically stored, an official at the European Commission has said. 18/06/2012 Corporate Shareholders to conduct binding votes on executive pay policy at least once every three years, Government announces Company shareholders are to hold binding votes over executive pay policy, including exit payments made to dismissed directors, the Government has announced. 21/06/2012 Pensions Lehman subsidiaries could be forced to provide financial support to underfunded pension scheme Subsidiaries of the collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers could be forced to provide ongoing financial support to the company's underfunded pension scheme after a tribunal ruled the trustees of the scheme were entitled to raise an action. 21/06/2012 UK pensions industry urged to influence EIOPA solvency standards impact assessment The UK pensions industry has been asked to "play a full role" in a European consultation that could impact on the extent to which pension schemes could be subject to new funding requirements. 19/06/2012 Property Businesses will be able to challenge supermarkets’ potentially uncompetitive land use restrictions Businesses will be able to challenge land use restrictions put in place by major supermarkets to limit local competition from rival grocery outlets, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has announced. 20/06/2012 Employment Tribunals could be able to order companies guilty of “systemic discrimination” to carry out equal pay audits UPDATED: Employment tribunals will be able to order companies who lose sex discrimination cases to disclose the gap in pay between their male and female employees under plans announced by the Equalities Minister. 18/06/2012 Business body calls on Government to scrap CRC and commission environmental tax review The Government needs to commission an independent review of its existing environmental taxation regime before it follows through on plans to increase revenue generated by such taxes, an influential business group has said. 18/06/2012     Pinsent Masons: combining the experience, resources and international reach of McGrigors and Pinsent Masons