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This month, the High Court refused to grant an injunction to prevent video footage of Max Mosley, the head of Formula 1 motor-racing, being shown on the News of the World website (Case of Mosley v News Group Newspapers Limited, 9 April 2008).

In an eagerly awaited ruling handed down on 13 February 2014 the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has decided that the owner of a website may, without the authorisation of the copyright holders, hyperlink to copyright-protected content that is "freely accessible" on another website. This

Content developers are always looking for new ways to protect their creations by preventing illegal copying.

US mum Stephanie Lenz filmed her toddler dancing to the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy" and posted the clip on YouTube for family and friends to see.

The Information Commissioner yesterday issued new guidance relating to the collection of personal data, online (the "Code").

A recent European Patent Office Board of Appeal decision examines Apple's double-click payment technology, where a seemingly simple user interface improvement—using a double press of the home button combined with fingerprint verification to enable...

The four founders of The Pirate Bay have been found guilty of infringing copyright law by a Swedish court – each founder has been jailed for one year and together they must pay total damages of £2.4m.

Both Nominet and WIPO have recently upheld complaints by footballer Wayne Rooney and Stoneygate 48 Limited, a company wholly owned by him, against the registration of the domain names waynerooney.co.uk and waynerooney.com (respectively), and ordered the transfer of the domain names to Stoneygate (which owns all the intellectual property rights in the Wayne Rooney name and image).

The UK Government have backed proposals to amend UK copyright law in order to bring it up to date with the use of modern technology. One of the most noted areas for overhaul is that of "format shifting".

In today's judgment, the UK Supreme Court held that rights-holders should bear the costs of implementing website blocking injunctions to prevent IP infringement.

It was announced yesterday that the non-profit group which administers the internet domain name system, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has approved changes to relax the restrictions on the domain rules so as to allow registrants to use a wider range of domain names than those available.

On 25 May 2016, the European Commission announced a tripartite plan of attack aimed at pushing the digital single market strategy forward.

Shortly before the trial, the claimants accepted a settlement offer from the defendant by email which focused exclusively on quantum.

Amendments made last week to the Digital Economy Bill have the potential seriously to impact upon the ability of sites such as YouTube to show freely content posted by users.

Analysys Mason was commissioned to prepare a report outlining the benefits of caching to the workings of the Internet, and the importance of a supportive regulatory regime for the development of caching services.