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What are perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free licences?Licences are sometimes expressed to be ‘perpetual’, ‘irrevocable’ or ‘royalty-free’, but...
Malicious falsehoodThis Practice Note provides an introduction to the tort of malicious falsehood. Unlike a claim for defamation, there is no...
DefamationThe tort of defamation is governed by a mixture of statute and common law. The relevant statutory law is contained in:•the Defamation Act...
Defamation and social mediaThe internet and, in particular, social media is a high risk area for defamation litigation. Content posted on blogs,...
Can the opt-in box for acceptance of website terms and conditions, acceptance of its privacy policy and consent to receiving email marketing be combined or is it necessary to obtain separate forms of consent for each of these?Three different areas of law are relevant in this context:•terms and
Websites—compliance requirementsThis Practice Note provides guidance on the key legal and compliance requirements that a website operator should consider, including:•The type and functionality of the website•Information disclosure requirements•Consumer protection•Privacy and data
WHOIS/Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP): How to find information about domain namesSTOP PRESS—Impact of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023: This document contains references to retained EU law (REUL) and associated terms introduced by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
What is the EU law on data scraping from websites?What is scraping?Web scraping is a process by which website data is extracted (ie copied) using a web scraping program. Websites are typically coded in HTML and a range of different web scraping programs have been created which interface with the
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