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		<title>Computer Software: In Oracle International Corp. v Usedsoft GmbH, the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down a decision on whether it is l</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Court of Justice of the European Union handed down a decision on whether it is legal to sell 'used software' or 'used licenses' when the software has been obtained via download.  An issue that touches on the question of EU-wide exhaustion....]]></description>
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		<title>Data Collection: In the Federal Trade Commission, Plaintiff v Spokeo Inc., the FTC issued a penalty to Spokeo, a data broker, for failures in adhering</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission issued an $800,000 penalty to Spokeo, a data broker gathering consumer information from online sources. The FTC's judgment makes clear that the Fair Credit Reporting Act applies to online data collection markets....]]></description>
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		<title>Online Advertising: In a case involving online adverts being posted on Twitter (for Mars Chocolate UK Ltd, Snickers bar), the Advertising Standards Au</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority to shed light on the current regulations and codes of practice for advertising via social media, since the expansion of the ASA's Committee of Advertising Practice Codes (12th Edition) ('CAP Code')....]]></description>
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		<title>Games Cloning: In Tetris Holding, LLC and The Tetris Company, LLC v Xio Interactive, a US District Court ruled on a case involving the alleged infring</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 30 May 2012 the US District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled on a case involving the alleged infringement of copyright in the popular game 'Tetris' by Xio Interactive, Inc....]]></description>
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		<title>Online Search: In the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Google, Inc., the Federal Court of Australia held that search engine providers </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Court of Australia held that search engine providers are liable for misleading search results; in this instance that Google is liable for misleading search results as a result of its Google AdWords service....]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright: The sharing of audio visual content online, presents complex copyright protection issues, as it involves the creation of temporary copies o</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sharing of audio visual content online, presents complex copyright protection issues, as it involves the creation of temporary copies on internet servers. The exact details pertaining to the EU wide directive which protects those works communicated vi...]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Litigatoin: The United States International Trade Commission has seen a significant increase in intellectual property litigation investigations</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Trade Commission has seen a significant increase in intellectual property litigation investigations, particularly concerning cases involving infringing goods being imported into the US....]]></description>
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		<title>Email Contracts: The question as to whether conversational emails constitute an enforceable contract has been asked in courts across the globe. Cases </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question as to whether emails constitute an enforceable contract has been asked in courts across the globe. The Statute of Frauds is continually used in defence of contracts created through conversational email, prohibiting actions to enforce contract...]]></description>
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		<title>Website Blocking: An increase in cases involving online piracy, illustrates the complex legal background to the protection of intellectual property ri</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An increase in court cases involving online piracy and referals to the Court of Justice of the European Union, illustrates the complex legal background to the protection of intellectual property rights online. Authorities are increasingly turning to websi...]]></description>
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		<title>Defamation: In McGrath and another v Dawkins and others,the High Court ruled that an administrator of a website may be liable for defamatory comments </title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The High Court ruled that an administrator of a website may be liable for defamatory comments posted on a website connected to its site through a hyperlink. This case also considers the potential liability in defamation of Amazon, as a platform provider....]]></description>
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