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View online 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  Free Out-Law Breakfast Seminars, November 2012 Clouding your vision: the opportunities and hidden dangers of B2B cloud computing London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Register your interest: http://www.out-law.com/en/outlaw-events/ This week's highlights from Out-Law News TMT & Sourcing and Intellectual Property Content of emails should generally not be considered as property, rules High Court Businesses do not have a general claim of ownership over the content in staff emails, a High Court judge has said. 08/11/2012 German news aggregators face publisher levy under planned changes to copyright laws Media monitoring firms and search engines in Germany will be required to pay publishers in order to display snippets of stories within a year of when the stories are first published under planned changes to German copyright law. 08/11/2012 Civil courts could get powers to enforce compensation for wronged consumers New powers that could make it easier for consumers to demand reimbursement from companies who have overcharged or mis-sold them products have been proposed by the Government. 07/11/2012 Smaller firms conducting fewer IT audit risk assessments, according to survey Almost a third of businesses with revenues of less than $100 million do not conduct any form of IT audit risk assessment, according to a new survey. 07/11/2012 European Commission makes additional radio spectrum available for 4G services Mobile operators will have the opportunity to bid for the use of additional radio spectrum in order to deliver '4G' services following a European Commission announcement on Monday. 06/11/2012 Google unlikely to be held liable for defamatory 'autocomplete' suggestions in UK, says expert The UK courts would be likely to rule that Google is not a publisher of terms it suggests to users of its search engine, an expert has said. 06/11/2012 Pensions ABI to publish "typical" annuity rates to improve pension transparency Occupational pension providers could be asked to provide details of the typical annuity rates they will make available to different types of customer, under plans being put forward by one of the industry's professional bodies. 08/11/2012 Property Changes to squatting laws should be extended to commercial property, expert says An increase in the number of cases of squatting in commercial premises was the "inevitable consequence" of a change in the law to criminalise the practice in residential property, an expert has said. 07/11/2012 Tax UK and Germany call for "international cooperation" on tax avoidance The Chancellor of the Exchequer has joined with his German counterpart to call for "concerted international cooperation" on the amount of corporation tax paid by large international companies. 07/11/2012 Financial Services Platforms providers are split on FSA charging rules Disagreements have emerged amongst platforms companies about how strictly the Financial Services Authority (FSA) should enforce a ban on platform providers being paid by anyone other than investment clients. 07/11/2012 Infrastructure Council pension funds could double infrastructure investment under Government plans Local authority pension funds in England and Wales could be freed up to invest as much as £22 billion more into vital infrastructure projects, the Government has announced. 06/11/2012 Energy Offshore wind "innovators" invited to bid for share of £10m Government funding Up to £10 million in Government funding could be made available to "innovators" with ideas about how to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy. 06/11/2012   Pinsent Masons: combining the experience, resources and international reach of McGrigors and Pinsent Masons   About this email This is a weekly email for subscribers of Out-Law.com, a website with more than 10,000 pages of legal news and guidance. 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