eCommerce Directive

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - 15:38

This is Jisc's submission to the Intellectual Property Office Call for Views: Modernising the European Copyright Framework.

26 May 2016 at 8:58am

Intermediary liability and platforms

The European Commission has now published its conclusions from the consultation on platforms it carried our earlier this year. This included notice-and-takedown: an issue we've been working on for many years.

23 December 2015 at 9:37am

European Commisson platforms consultation

As its title suggests, the Commission's public consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy covers a lot of different areas. One of these is the rules for on-line intermediaries: at present networks, caches and hosts that carry third party content.

2015 - European Commission consultation on on-line platforms

Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 09:15

As its title suggests, the Commission's public consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy covers a lot of different areas. One of these is the rules for on-line intermediaries (at present networks, caches and hosts that carry third party content).

11 November 2015 at 9:03am

House of Lords: Online Platforms

Defamation Act

The European Commission have recently announced a consultation into online platforms. Last month the House of Lords EU Internal Market Sub-committee invited submissions of evidence to inform the UK's response.

18 June 2015 at 3:42pm

The Judgment of Delfi

In Ancient Greece the oracle at Delphi was notorious for speaking in riddles. The European Human Rights Court’s judgement in Delfi v Estonia is similarly puzzling.

15 October 2014 at 11:54am

Incentives for Intermediaries

Data Protection Directive

right to be forgotten

Privacy

One aspect of the Google Spain judgment I’ve not seen discussed is the incentives it creates for search engines.

6 December 2012 at 10:49am

Law Commission on Contempt of Court and the Internet

internet filtering

The Law Commission have published an interesting consultation paper on how the law of contempt of court is affected by the internet.

29 August 2012 at 5:16pm

EU Notice and Action Consultation

Defamation Bill