European media outlets could soon be scrutinised by independent agencies empowered to investigate complaints and hand out fines, if recommendations of an EU-appointed panel are accepted. | 13yrs
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A game featuring cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants has been removed from Apple's app store amid complaints that it violated children's privacy rights. | 13yrs
Users of Twitter and Facebook who post offensive messages are to be dealt with more leniently under fresh guidelines for England and Wales, in a move that could set an international standard for social media. | 13yrs
Britain's row over the liability of social media users continued to bubble this week as the wife of a senior political figure faced a £50,000 defamation suit for recent comments on Twitter. | 13yrs
This comparative guide offers a practical overview of the enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards across multiple jurisdictions. | 2mos
A group of top law firms have been drafted in for the publishing world's mega merger. | 13yrs
Social media web site commentators should not be prosecuted for offensive remarks unless they are threatening or incite violence, the head prosecutor in England has recommended. | 13yrs
US District Judge William Alsup's eyebrow-raising decision ordering technology rivals Oracle and Google to reveal any financial relationships with bloggers and journalists is causing many lawyers in the field to question the bench's motives. | 13yrs
Washington DC-based law firm Patton Boggs has joined several major US legal practices in turning to outside service providers tracking news and internet chatter to up their service game to clients. | 13yrs
The Germans invented the printing press and published the world's first newspaper. But the British - and latterly, the Americans - have written the book on modern journalism and press practices. | 14yrs
The second reading of the UK government's Defamation Bill yesterday has caused a stir in the media, with many expecting a harsh clamp-down on internet 'trolls'. | 14yrs
As the Leveson Inquiry trundles on, the media is now entering unchartered territory. | 14yrs
London law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain advised A&N Media - the consumer media business of Daily Mail and General Trust Plc (DMGT) - on its purchase of Italian job website Jobrapido. | 14yrs
Some of you may not have noticed that, squeezed in between Hugh Grant, J K Rowling and Charlotte Church during the opening stages of the Leveson Inquiry was one Jane Winter, director of British Irish Rights Watch (BIRW). | 14yrs
Human rights campaigners are pressing the Bolivian government to reform the country's criminal defamation laws following the recent conviction of a leading editor who has been sentenced to a two-anda- half-year prison term. | 14yrs
Privacy and Libel Law - the clash with press freedom Published by: Bloomsbury Professional Author: Paul Tweed February 2012, H/B £19.99 ISBN: 9781847669025 | 14yrs
Two US lawyers could send shock waves through the legal publishing industry if a copyright action they are bringing succeeds. | 14yrs
The Obama administration today released draft legislation putting US internet privacy rights on a collision course with its European legal counterpart. | 14yrs
Former international footballer Ryan Giggs has been named in court for the first time as the player behind a high-profile injunction over his private-life. | 14yrs
Welsh singer-song writer Charlotte Church is close to settling her phone-hacking case against defunct British tabloid newspaper, the News of the World. | 14yrs