Intermediary Liability

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.

8 April 2015 at 7:30pm

Apples and Oranges

right to be forgotten

data protection

In discussions of the "Right to be Forgotten" it is often observed that Google manages each month to deal with tens of millions of delisting requests for breach of copyright, as opposed to tens of thousands for inaccurate personal data. Often the implication seems to be that those numbers should be more similar.

26 February 2015 at 11:00am

Why Google Spain worries me

right to be forgotten

data protection

Next month I'll be going to an academic conference on Google Spain and the "Right to be Forgotten" (actually, "right to be delinked") so I thought I'd better organise my thoughts on why, as a provider and user of communications and information services, the decision worries me. And I am much more worried by the decision itself and the train of proposed law it seems to have created than by how Google has responded.

16 October 2014 at 5:09pm

Revenge Pornography: Notice and Takedown

revenge pornography

Herewith first impressions of the Government's proposal to criminalise "Revenge Pornography" since, if it is passed, this will be another type of material that those offering web or other publishing services for user generated content will need to include in their notice and takedown processes. Comments welcome, especially if you think there's something I've missed.

28 August 2013 at 9:36am

Draft Defamation Act Regulations for Website Operators