Internet Law - Can EU Internet Service Providers Provide Information Regarding Copyright Infringers?
	Martha L. Arias, IBLS Director Tuesday, November 17, 2009
	Databases recovered value with the imposition of the Internet. Nowadays, companies significantly invest in collecting, protecting, maintaining, and securing their databases. It is also clear that privacy laws in the United States (U.S.) and the European Union (EU) protect personal identifiable information found in databases, and that Internet Service Providers (ISP), specifically, can only reveal this information to public authorities conducting criminal investigations or for national security purposes. Indeed, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided an interesting case that posted the question of whether ISP could sell information to copyright groups regarding copyright infringers.
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INTERNET LAW - “Good Cause” Requirement in Expedited Discovery of E-Documents

Expedited discovery may be granted on a showing of good cause. A discovery request based on this standard is likely to be granted where there is an indication that there is a special need to protect the evidence from spoliation, when a party has a justified need to view certain evidence before the normal discovery proceedings, and other similar circumstances. Due to the transience of electronic documents, expedited discovery is particularly topical when electronic documents are concerned.

INTERNET LAW - Anti-Spam Law in Peru

Peru passed Law 28493 on April 12, 2005, to regulate spam. The National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi- Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual) is the competent agency for enforcing the regulation.

INTERNET LAW - File Sharing And Privacy In Italy

File sharing, or P2P, allows individuals to exchange files and software free of charge over the Internet. P2P activities have grown exponentially especially with the advent of high speed Internet and greater access to computers. Users rarely consider the privacy implications however of logging onto a peer-to-peer network to swap music, films and software with others. File swapping may leave one’s computer open to hackers, viruses or other harmful elements. The effects of these are obvious. When P2P activities are carried on at the workplace, though, they can be even more dangerous. Lost data, service interruption, unauthorized access to the system can mean economic losses for businesses. It is as such important that the rules and requirements of the Privacy Code be implemented in businesses in order to safeguard their information patrimony.

INTERNET LAW - China Consumer Protection Act

Consumer protection in China is regulated by the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests was adopted on October 31, 1993 and came into force on January 1st, 1994 (the “LPCRI”). The LPCRI enumerates consumer rights and the obligations of business dealers and enjoins state organs to punish the criminal offences of business dealers who violate legal consumer rights and interests.

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UNITED STATES: Federal Regulators Issue Final Model Privacy Notice Form

Eight federal regulatory agencies today released a final model privacy notice form that will make it easier for consumers to understand how financial institutions collect and share information about consumers. Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act), institutions must notify consumers of their information-sharing practices and inform consumers of their right to opt out of certain sharing practices. The model form issued today can be used by financial institutions to comply with these requirements.

EUROPEAN UNION: Consumers: 70% of Ringtone-Scam Websites Cleaned Following EU Investigation

70% of websites investigated for mis-selling ringtones, wallpapers and other mobile phone services have been corrected or closed, following an 18 month EU consumer crackdown carried out by 27 Member States, Norway and Iceland. Since June 2008, when initial checks took place, 301 websites were investigated by national enforcement authorities for serious breaches of EU consumer law. 70% of the 301 cases investigated, have now been resolved. 52% (159 websites) have been corrected and 17% (54 websites) have closed. The three main problems found were: unclear pricing (for example, information was missing or incomplete); failure to provide complete trader information; and misleading advertising, in particular, advertising ringtones as "free" where the consumer is in fact tied into a paying subscription. In Italy, in February and May enforcement authorities, as a result of the sweep, imposed large fines of around 2 million Euro on 9 major companies found to be in breach of the law.

INDIA: WIPO Director General Pledges Support for India’s Visually Impaired Community

WIPO Director General Francis Gurry met representatives of India’s visually impaired (VIP) community at a conference on the “Right to Read of persons with print disabilities and copyright challenges” organized by the VIP community in cooperation with the Government of India in New Delhi on November 11, 2009, and reaffirmed WIPO’s commitment to supporting international attempts to improve access to copyright protected works by visually impaired persons (VIPs). “Let me assure you that this is a priority area for the World Intellectual Property Organization,” Mr. Gurry said.

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OXFORD/IBLS: Global E-Business Law and Taxation

IBLS and its global legal network of experts bring you a representative masterpiece of global e-commerce and tax legislation! IBLS presents to you the first book in Internet law series, created in partnership with Oxford University Press: "Global E-Business Law and Taxation" http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/Taxation/?view=usa&ci=9780195367218#Product_Details Among the numerous topics related to e-commerce, taxation is the one that still has not established homogeneity among different countries'' legislation and still represents a critical issue to be addressed from both a business and legal perspective. This book intends to provide an overview of the e-commerce and e-commerce taxation laws and principles applied by diverse countries.

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