EU Law Allows For Bans On Foreign Online Gambling Operators, Says Top Court Advisor

Hot on the heels of the news that both Vodafone and O2 are firing flak at Ofcom over Everything Everywhere's potential 4G LTE head-start later this year, Three is now doing its bit to muddy the UK's 4G waters as well. Three's...

eBay has lost a legal battle in European courts relating to liability for infringement of trademarks. The online auction website originally argued that it should not be held liable when its users illegally use a trademark for a...

Europe has proposed an Internet Treaty to protect the net from political interference which threatens to break it up.The draft international law has been compared to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which sought to prevent space...

G Data Software AG – the strategic partner of Infosecurity Europe 2010 held in London – will exhibit at the VIIth International Exhibition "InfoSecurity Russia. StorageExpo. Documatuin’2010”...

Europe's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, will next week rule on whether or not Google can use trade marks to trigger ads when brands battle to reach online consumers. The ruling is due on Tuesday and will...

After being reported by Opera Software to the European Commission for providing Internet Explorer web browser pre-installed in its Windows OS, Microsoft has now been threatened with a class-action lawsuit by an Italian consumer...

In what can be seen as a sign of things to come, Finland has become the latest country to make fast broadband access a legal right and aims to connect every household with a 100Mbps connection by 2015. The move can also been seen...

The declaration emerged from attempts by publishers in Germany to have copyright law there changed to better protect newspaper publishers.The Hamburg declaration stops short of calling for new rights but did say that it welcomed...

Viral marketing which relies on people to hand over friends' contact details can be legal but only if certain conditions are met, Dutch authorities have ruled. Companies must be careful not to break telecoms and data protection...

Microsoft Corp. has been accused by European Union for adversely affecting market competition by incorporating its Internet Explorer web browser with its flagship Windows operating systems only.  In its fresh set of...

A landmark court ruling which last year backed the European Commission's last competition action against Microsoft may not be as helpful in its current action as has been widely thought, according to a competition lawyer.The...

The European Commission says European media businesses should be able to offer creative content in a single legal environment. It has launched a consultation that calls for multi-territory licences and interoperable digital...

Google is not bound by the Data Retention Directive when it comes to search engine logs, Europe's data protection committee has said. Google has used the Directive to justify keeping data, but OUT-LAW has learned that the law...

Content related threats target calls directly. Threats in this category include call monitoring and eavesdropping as well as VoIP Spam. The concept of call monitoring is familiar from the PSTN world, but the reality is that it is...

Wi-Next, the pioneering open-source Wi-Fi company, is to provide broadband access to the Italian region of Alta Langa for the first time as part of Europe's largest ever wide-area Wi-Fi mesh project. Alta Langa is a mountainous...