Overview

This updater from Norton Rose highlights key international legal and regulatory developments in the communications, media and technology sectors as well as developments in sourcing, intellectual property and data protection/privacy law.

Contents:

• Europe - Diverse national application of EU regulation hinders the telecoms market
• Communications and technology companies embrace branding and retailing
• UK - Hunt’s lighter touch regulation for local media
• Europe - Antitrust developments in the technology sector
• Europe - Restrictions on hazardous substances
• Europe - REACH and the classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals
• UK - Always get it in writing: English Supreme Court finds a contract exists despite lack of written agreement
• Black clouds for Red Sky as English court finds exclusion clauses in IT contract are unenforceable
• UK - Office of Government Commerce issues new negotiating guide for ICT Services Model Agreement
• China - Latest PRC draft ‘indigenous innovation’ government procurement rules: China mulls changes to policy on technology procurement
• UK - Controlled Foreign Company rules
• Europe - EC Commission proposal to publish a draft revised EU Data Protection Directive by the end of 2010 - watch this space
• Australia - Amendments to the Do Not Call Register
• China - New tort law creates actionable privacy rights

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