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On 7 February 2007, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) released guidelines relating to its new enforcement powers introduced by the Communications Legislation Amendment (Enforcement Powers) Act 2006.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has announced that registrants will be able to register.
In September 2011, the British Columbia Supreme Court delivered its decision in Century 21 Canada Limited Partnership v. Rogers Communications Inc. [doing business as Zoocasa Inc.], 2011 BCSC 1196 (Zoocasa).
An eagerly awaited list of applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) was recently revealed, disclosing 1930 applications for a wide variety of potential new gTLDs.
This month marks the 25th year of operations for the .CA domain, Canada’s country-code top-level domain (ccTLD).
Further to our last newsletter concerning the use of cookies, the supervisory authority OPTA has issued a FAQ document in this respect.
Quarterly update summarising regulatory and legal developments from the last three months in the communications, media and satellite sectors in Europe.
Oracle is a licensor of software, of which a large proportion is obtained through download.
This weekend, the 12 month grace period for compliance with the new EU cookie rule comes to an end.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK is now officially in recession as the economy has contracted for the past two quarters.
The Pirate Bay (TPB) is a Swedish website that links to online copies of music, films, and software – anything that can be easily copied and distributed online.
Moving applications and other IT infrastructure components into "the cloud" is now a standard approach to the management of information technology (IT) resources.
It’s been a contentious meeting in Dubai at the World Conference on International Telecommunications.
Six months after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the district court’s dismissal of Rosetta Stone’s trademark infringement lawsuit against Google, the parties issued a joint statement today announcing that they have settled their legal dispute.
CNN reports that the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (SB 3414) has failed to pass the US Senate. A cloture vote failed by a vote of 42-46, mostly along party lines.
The DAA has worked with a broad set of stakeholders with significant input from businesses, consumers, and policy makers to develop a program governing the responsible collection and use of web viewing data.
On May 16, Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity, Mark Weatherford, spoke to the Advanced Cyber Security Center about DHS's cyber security priorities: Information Sharing, R&D, and the Advanced Persistent Threat.
The Supreme Court in New York County recently dismissed a $20 million suit in a sanctioning order in response to the Plaintiff’s destruction of electronically stored information ("ESI").
What is "the Cloud"? That depends on whom you ask. Answers currently run from Apple and its competitors offering storage and music and file synchronization to customers who are individuals, to very large vendors at a global scale servicing very large enterprises as customers.
As with any type of business transaction, there are many considerations that must be taken into account when approaching the negotiation of a software license agreement.
'Cloud computing' is one of the current buzz phrases of the IT industry and the cost savings it promises is drawing increasing attention from IT managers in the current economic climate.
“Good evening and welcome to television” were the immortal words of Australia’s first television broadcast. Now almost 50 years on television programs are capable of being delivered by a number of different platforms including the Internet Welcome to Internet Protocol TV (IPTV).
The Cryptography Regulations issued in terms of the Electronic Communications and Transaction Act of 2002 (ECT Act), which came into effect on 10 March 2006, have not clarified the uncertainty over whether or not users of cryptography software would also be considered cryptography providers and should be registered as such.
The Tanzanian law of Evidence Act, No 6 of 1067 (Act) does not have provisions recognizing electronic documents as admissible evidence whether primary or secondary (see sections 64, 65 and 79 of the Act). Yet Tanzanian companies take orders, conclude contracts, send invoices and generally conduct business electronically without additional documentation to support the business transacted electronically.
Your commercial negotiations have reached a certain stage. You now wish to record the main points and the basis on which you agree to proceed with the transaction in the form of Heads of Terms (also known as heads of agreement, memoranda of understanding, term sheets or letters of intent).
‘Boilerplate’ is the term often used to describe clauses, such as governing law and entire agreement clauses, that are so commonly found in commercial contracts that they often seem to have become standardised.
The Story Continues. Eighteen years on from when it was first a glimmer in the European Commission’s eye, database right continues to vex rightholders, legislators and legal practitioners alike. This article takes up the story from the end of the previous chapter of the saga, the series of judgments handed down by the European Court of Justice on November 2004, and briefly overviews the follow up case law so far and the Commission’s Evaluation of the Database Directive currently in progress.
This question was answered by Steven Dutton of the McLane Law Firm...
As with any type of business transaction, there are many considerations that must be taken into account when approaching the negotiation of a software license agreement.
European consumers have expressed concern that the USA Patriot Act (the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" or "Patriot Act") will afford the US government undue and unfettered access to their data if they choose to store it on the cloud servers of US providers (e.g., Microsoft or IBM).
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