Another useful meeting with ISPs and rights-holders at Ofcom yesterday, concentrating on the definitions in section 16 of the Digital Economy Act 2010; in particular how those can be used to achieve the objectives of the Act without forcing organisations and networks into inappropriate categories. The emphasis throughout was on addressing major sources of copyright [...]
Ofcom have invited me to a meeting to discuss the definitions in section 16 of the Digital Economy Act 2010, so I’ve been staring at what the Act says and trying to make sense of how it applies to universities or colleges with JANET connections. Since a wide variety of answers to this question have [...]
In a speech last month European Commissioner Viviane Reding gave an indication of some of the technologies and other developments perceived as causing problems for Europe’s fifteen year old Data Protection law:
The new legal framework should address new challenges of the information age, such as globalisation, development of information technologies, the internet, online [...]
I attended a very useful meeting at Ofcom this morning where they launched their plans for the first stage of implementing the copyright infringement powers in the Digital Economy Act 2010. There were about 70 people there covering an impressive range of stakeholders: businesses, hotels, consumer rights, us, as well as both fixed and mobile [...]