Overview

The November e-briefing seeks to give you an insight into some of the industry news and legal changes relevant to information technology, media and telecoms sub-sectors, as well as to the TMT Sector as a whole.

As well as developments specific to each of the disciplines packed with industry news together with salient legal updates, the general section contains a number of legal updates relevant to the whole sector. The contents page can be read below.


CONTENTS

Technology
• TMT market confidence?
• Is data protection outdated?
• UK faces EU case over Internet privacy
• IT service organisations and audit: a simpler solution?
• Spending a pound to save a penny?
• The new face of crime?
• Data Protection Act infringements abound
• Will you be home for Christmas?
• Update on the future: look to the sky. Or maybe the clouds?
• PCI: it is never too late. Or is it?
• You can't copy, right? An update
• IT spending
• Worth the wait?
• To escrow or not to escrow…

Media
• Government announces removal of cross-media ownership restrictions
• Facebook accused of privacy breach
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• High Court awards damages against a US website for hosting defamatory
statements on a forum on its website

Telecoms
• Comprehensive Spending Review: telecoms and mobile operators
• Ofcom ruling will speed up broadband rollout

General
• European Parliament passes new late payments rules
• Legal professional privilege not applicable to communications with inhouse
lawyers
• Case update: liquidated damages
• Case update: appropriate retention of title provisions in the context of
your contract
• Capital gains tax: entrepreneurs’ relief
• High Court interprets agreement after parties amended a defined term
• Consumer finance: consumer credit and personal insolvency review
• Changes to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme in the Spending Review
• Government pensions tax changes
• Case summary: Giedo van der Garde BV v Force India Formula One Team
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