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TMT weekly highlights—2 May 2019

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Published on: 02 May 2019

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Table of contents

Information technology
A new open source licence to beware of
Advertising, marketing and sponsorship
Court backs ASA on part-fibre broadband advertisements (R (on the application of CityFibre Ltd) v Advertising Standards Authority Ltd)
ASA find in favour of Betfred
ASA rulings for 1 May 2019
Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe seeks comment on GDPR framework
Reputation management
No serious harm to reputation (Alexander-Theodotou and others v Kounis)
Court of Appeal upholds decision to stay claim on grounds of forum non conveniens (Kennedy v The National Trust for Scotland)

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Article summary

This week’s edition of TMT highlights includes a look at developments in open source software, the case of R (on the application of CityFibre Ltd) v Advertising Standards Authority Ltd in which the High Court considered a ruling by the ASA, defamation caselaw updates and the latest news in Fintech.

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