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EDITORIAL: Money remitters and the challenges of the PSD
ROMANIA: Government launches Virtual Payments Office
TRANSIT PAYMENTS: Octopus and Oyster: lessons for payment providers
CHINA: Virtual currency: regulation and taxation issues
INSURANCE: Competition Commission: PPI market remedies
NIGERIA: Analysis: e-banking customer survey
EDITORIAL: Privacy legislation gets creative
MACEDONIA: Law on Personal Data Protection: 2008 amendments
COMMENT: Electronic communications and the workplace
DATA SHARING: Home Office: data sharing under the Serious Crime Act
ITALY: Garante: code of conduct for criminal defence investigations
US: Implementation of the Broadband Data Act
IRELAND: Data protection reform and the Data Retention Directive
EDITORIAL: Short termism
CONVERGENCE: Consumption of audio-visual content in Britain: challenges
AUSTRALIA: Government proposal for mandatory ISP filtering
COPYRIGHT: Google’s Library Project: copyright and fair use
NET FREEDOM: Global initiative to protect net privacy and freedoms launched
COMMENT: Affiliate marketing: eBay’s cooking stuffing battle
DIGITAL MUSIC: Music consumption: legal downloading on the increase
CASE LAW UPDATE: Key e-commerce cases
EDITORIAL: Wolf in sheep's clothing
2009 ISSUES: Views and predictions from the editorial board for 2009
IRELAND: Regulating online gambling: progress report
US: Application of US law to fantasy sports betting
SPAIN: Developments in regional and federal regulation
AUSTRALIA: Betfair decision: implications for online wagering regulations
CORRUPTION: National and international steps to combat match-fixing
TRADEMARKS: Liverpool FC withdraws its 'Liver Bird' application
2009 ISSUES: Views and predictions from the editorial board for 2009
INJURIES: Forms of legal action when on-pitch remedies fail
PORTUGAL: Ambush marketing: new law to protect Lusophony Games
TAX: VAT and sport: recent case law and implications
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PRIVACY: In 'United States of America v Robert Ellsworth Crist, III', a US federal trial court rules that a state investigator's review of a digital image of a computer's hard drive and a 'hash value' of the files stored on that hard drive represents an unconstitutional search.
CONTACT INFORMATION: In 'BV and VVB v Deutsche Internet Versicherung', the European Court of Justice considers what represents an acceptable alternative direct method of contacting the provider of an internet service under the E-Commerce Directive.
DATABASE RIGHT: In 'Directmedia v Albert-Ludwigs Universität', the European Court of Justice holds that a database right owner can prevent the copying of the idea for a database - even when there has been no technical process of copying the contents.
DEFAMATION: In 'Crookes v Wikimedia Foundation Inc,' a Canadian supreme court decides that the creation of a hyperlink to defamatory words does not constitute as publication of those words and the creator of that hyperlink is not liable for the defamatory contents of the linked site.
DOMAIN NAMES: In 'Harry Winston v Jennifer Katherman', a WIPO Administrative Panel accepts that there was no intent to deceive customers of a jeweller through the parodic use of a similar domain name for a pet parlour business.
RIPA: In 'R v S and A', the UK Court of Appeal dismisses an appeal against an order issued under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to hand over computer passwords, providing guidance on the limits of the 'self incrimination' defence.
COPYRIGHT: In 'Horn v Google Inc', the Hamburg Regional Court holds that displaying copyrighted pictures in the form of thumbnails constitutes direct copyright infringement under German law, dismissing Google's 'fair use' defences.
SOFTWARE PATENTS: In 'In Re Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw', the US Federal Court of Appeals affirms a decision of the US Patent and Trademark Office to reject a patent for a business method, adopting a test that raises the bar for organisations wishing to patent business methods.
TRAFFIC-SHAPING: In 'CAIP v Bell Canada', the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission denies CAIP's application requesting the Commission to order Bell Canada to stop traffic shaping practices.
DISCLOSURE: In 'eBay Canada Limited and eBay Vancouver Inc. v Minister of National Revenue', the Federal Court of Appeal rules that confidential information held on servers owned by third party companies and located outside Canada is not protected from disclosure requests issued by a government minister.
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ECB and Commission issue draft SEPA Action Plan for 2009-2012
Linden Lab expresses concern over China's virtual currency tax
UK: 1 million contactless cards issued
ECHR ruling will force UK to reconsider DNA retention
UK will not introduce mandatory security breach notification
US Data Breach Service launched
Coalition to challenge State tax on music and book downloads
UK supports Commission’s plans to extend length of copyright term
PartyGaming founder’s $300m DoJ settlement
Sport is aiming to sell a 'right to bet' to gambling operators
Advertising Standards Authority bans ads for discrediting airlines
Court of appeals meets to discuss domain names
Swimming coaches want new swimsuit technology banned
Sport is aiming to sell a 'right to bet' to gambling operators
DFL to decide on free TV games next year
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