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EDITORIAL: Developments in commercial payments
AML COMPLIANCE: Vodafone: money transfer and AML compliance
MOBILE PAYMENTS: EPC & GSMA agreement: the future of mobile payments
INSURANCE: Competition Commission: payment protection insurance
LIQUIDITY RISK: Bank for International Settlement report: liquidity risk
PREMIUM RATE SERVICES: PhonepayPlus and the Gambling Commission’s MOU
CARD FRAUD: Chip and PIN’s failure to tackle UK card fraud
EDITORIAL: Getting data security right
OPINION: E-communication to be monitored by Swedish intelligence
SWEDEN: Swedish Parliament passes new Signal Surveillance Act
UNITED STATES: Behavioural advertising: state and federal legislative plans
ARGENTINA: Violation of email becomes a criminal offence
DISCLOSURE: House of Lords: disclosure of medical statistics judgment
OPINION: Data Protection – commercial friend or foe?
POYNTER REPORT: Information security and HMRC: lessons to be learnt
EDITORIAL: Is all content equal?
MOBILE DOWNLOADS: Commission ‘Sweep’: mobile phone download market
FRANCE: User-generated content: website liability
RUSSIA: Cyrillic script: country code top-level domains
ADWORDS: Search engine liability for adverts for counterfeit products
CHILD PROTECTION: Safer internet: EDPS Opinion on protecting children
ITALY: Cybercrime Convention: changes to criminal laws
CASE LAW UPDATE: Key e-commerce cases
EDITORIAL: A different radar
PREMIUM RATE SERVICES: PhonepayPlus and the Gambling Commission's MOU
UNITED STATES: GATS: its use as a defence in online gambling cases
IRELAND: Casino Committee Report: implications for online operators
FRANCE: Sports betting: Paris court considers trademark use
DATA PROTECTION: Geo-location technology: data protection issues
SPAIN: State monopoly prepares for liberalisation of online gambling
OPINION: 'Foot in the door': player enhancement or player exploitation?
DOPING: Athlete Support Personnel: anti-doping management
OLYMPIC FOOTBALL: CAS decision: mandatory release of U23 players
COTONOU: Commission clarifies permitted player restrictions
OLYMPICS: Thanou case: IOC bars sprinter who has served ban
DOPING: Chambers case: national byelaws and international sanctions
CHINA: Regulation of electronic sports games
FRANCE: Anti-doping: new rules for the trafficking of doping products
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COPYRIGHT DIGITAL: In Jerry Greenberg v National Geographic Society, the US Court of Appeals rules on the extension of printed collective copyright to cover digitally-reproduced works.
LICENSING: In Vernor v Autodesk, a US federal district court considers whether software is licensed to a purchaser or sold, and whether such software can then be sold on.
COPYRIGHT SOFTWARE: In Higgs v R, the Court of Appeal quashes a conviction for selling chips that enable pirated games and DVDs to be played, due to the failure of the prosecution to plead that the playing of a game constituted copying under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
TRADEMARKS: In O2 Holdings Limited v Hutchison 3G UK Limited, the European Court of Justice rules that use of a competitor's trade mark in comparative advertising can be allowed if it does not cause confusion on the part of the public.
SOCIAL NETWORKS: In Hays Specialist Recruitment (Holdings) Ltd v Mark Ions, the High Court orders pre-action disclosure against an ex-employee in respect of a claim that he copied and retained contact information via the LinkedIn social network.
DEFAMATION: In Kevin Blackwell v News Group Newspapers, the High Court considers whether comments made in a national newspaper constitute defamation and express malice.
TRADEMARKS: In Tiffany (NJ) Inc. and Tiffany and Company v eBay Inc., the US District Court for the Southern District of New York rules that eBay's use of Tiffany's trademarks is protected under nominative fair use.
ONLINE GAMBLING: In PSG v Unibet and Bwin, the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris rejects Paris Saint Germain's request to prevent bookmakers from using its trademark to conduct sports betting.
DATA PROTECTION: In Garante per la Protezione Dei Dati Personali v Logistep, Italy's data protection commissioner reverses the decision of a Rome Court, which had ordered ISPs to disclose details of file sharers.
PRIVACY: The UK Court of Appeal held that Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights should be engaged in a case involving photographs of a celebrity's child being published without parental consent.
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US Judge rejects claims of MasterCard/Visa conspiracy
EFPLP launches September Commercial Payments Workshop
Flexibility to new PCI data standards
CoE invites non-members to sign Personal Data Convention
DPLP and DataGuidance launch October Briefing on International Data Transfers
Net companies defend advert privacy policies
Comcast considers appeal of FCC net management ruling
ISPs to be represented on UK Council for Child Internet Safety
UK fails to respond over Phorm issue
USTR clarifies role in EC investigation of US laws
Ministry of Finance clarifies Polish gambling tax issue
Dutch MoJ: football warned over Unibet ads
Juventus could be liable if Mutu cannot pay FIFA fine
FIG to accelerate gymnast licence after IOC requests age investigation
UCI accepts changes to antidoping model
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