The latest judgment from the BT/Newzbin case sets out what BT will be required to do to prevent its users accessing the Newzbin2 website that an earlier case found to be breaching copyright. From next month, BT will be required to add the Newzbin URLs to the system it already uses to limit access to [...]
The report of Parliament’s Joint Committee on the Draft Defamation Bill acknowledges the problems raised in our response to the consultation and proposes some novel solutions. As was noted by the Law Commission in 2002, current defamation law encourages Internet hosts to remove material provided by third parties as soon as they receive a complaint [...]
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has published an Opinion on the current Network Neutrality discussions, making the interesting point that blocking, filtering and traffic management activities may affect privacy as well as their more obvious impact on access to services. Although the Commission seem inclined to rely on market pressures to discourage providers imposing [...]
I was struck by a recent suggestion from the Minister for Culture, Media and Sport that there could be “a cross-industry body, perhaps modelled on the Internet Watch Foundation [IWF], to be charged with identifying infringing websites against which action could be taken”. While that might sound like an attractive idea – the IWF has, [...]