Below is a Google translation of the Hamburg District Court’s press release of today, when YouTube was found liable for copyright infringement. I haven’t proof read it yet, so it might not make much sense…
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Pinterest’s New Terms Expand Indemnity, Ban Commercial Use, Prevent Users Suing Cold Brew Labs
March 25th, 2012 
Gareth Dickson On Saturday, March 24, 2012, Pinterest emailed users to say it was updating its Terms of Service. Make no mistake – this is a pretty significant re-write, and kudos to Pinterest for making both sets readily available so we can compare and contrast them. The “proposed” terms come into effect on April 6, 2012 and [...]
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Tags: copyright, DMCA, Internet, jurisdiction, Pinterest, second circuit 
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Happy New Year!
December 31st, 2011 Gareth Dickson A quick note to mark the passing of 2011 and the start of 2012. Thank you all for reading and commenting here (and on Twitter) on the stories that have been reported on these pages. I’m looking forward to posting much more in 2012. There has been plenty to contemplate in the last 12 months [...]
Posted in copyright, data protection, North America, patents, privacy, social media, trademarks, UK and Europe, vront Tags: Authors Guild, Book Settlement, copyright, Google, Internet, second circuit, UK, US, YouTube No Comments »More #badIPnews
September 21st, 2011 Gareth Dickson With the increasing importance of intellectual property on companies’ balance sheets, and the rise in litigation between them, the law of averages dictates that we’ll be noticing more mistakes in articles discussing the nature of IP and its territorial limits. You know the sort of thing I mean: bloggers who note how someone is patenting [...]
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Help Us, Copyright; You’re Our Only Hope!
September 15th, 2011 Gareth Dickson As any celebrity – and certain governments and law firms – will tell you, there are risks as well as benefits in being connected to publicly accessible networks. Individuals and collectives such as Wikileaks, Anonymous and LulzSec have embarrassed the US government, the law firm ACS:Law, and now Scarlett Johannson and Jessica Alba by exposing [...]
Posted in copyright, North America, privacy, social media, UK and Europe, vront Tags: copyright, data protection, DMCA, Internet, jurisdiction, photographs, privacy No Comments »Make IT easier for yourself
August 14th, 2011 Gareth Dickson In addition to being able to follow this blog on Twitter, LinkedIn and via RSS, I’ve added a new subscription box to the right hand side of each page so that you can receive new posts via email as soon as they’re posted. You can choose to receive extracts or full text emails, in either [...]
Hugh Dennis’ velociraptor impression
August 7th, 2011 Gareth Dickson I’m listening to the BBC Now Show podcast from 15 July 2011 and they’ve just told listeners to Google ‘Hugh Dennis velociraptor impression’. Apparently no such impression exists, so I wondered how many hits a post with that title would get. I’m a bit late in listening to this since I was away for much [...]
Podcasting
August 5th, 2011 Gareth Dickson I’m currently setting up podcasts here so that this site’s content can be consumed by those with visual or other reading impairments. Please bear with me as I make my way through the trials and errors of doing something new. I’ll be as discrete as possible…
New Microsoft ad strategy more aggressive than Google’s?
August 5th, 2011 Gareth Dickson Microsoft has recently tested a new system of advertising whereby ads are not placed on top of the organic search results, nor to the side, nor on a colored background, but actually within the list of organic results. Is this a smart move? Will Microsoft find itself on the end of a (meritorious) lawsuit for [...]
Posted in North America, social media, trademarks, UK and Europe, vront Tags: AdSense, AdWords, ECJ, Europe, Google, Internet, trade marks, trademarks, UK, unfair business practices 1 Comment »
Google AdWords Takes A Hit: E-Commerce Safe Harbour MIA
July 31st, 2011 Gareth Dickson While the Wall Street Journal (initially, at any rate) declared outright victory for Google’s AdWords service after the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ” or “CJEU”) ruled that the sale of keywords to advertisers did not constitute “use” of those keywords within the meaning of the Trade Marks Directive (89/104/EEC), most of us [...]
Posted in social media, trademarks, UK and Europe, vront Tags: AdWords, ECJ, Europe, false advertising, Google, Internet, trade marks, trademarks, unfair business practices 2 Comments »