European Court of Justice
European Court of Justice
The highest administrative court in France is asking European judges to decide whether delinking should apply globally.
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EU Member States’ surveillance laws cannot impose a general and indiscriminate data retention to providers of electronic communications services, the European Court of Justice ruled on 21st December 2016. The decision regards UK’s Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act in force since 2014, but implies the illegality of the snooper’s charter that replaced it in January this year.
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Authors of out-of-print books hold an exclusive right to authorise or deny the digital publication of their works by a collecting society under EU copyright law, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) has ruled on 16 November in a landmark decision regarding the freedom of EU Member States to legislate independently on copyright issues, IPKat reports.
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The case brought by Digital Rights Ireland against the EU-US data transfer deal could have significant ramifications regarding European data protection and legislation.
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Following the troubling ruling by the Italian supreme court on the application of “right to be forgotten”, the Guardian’s lawyer weighs in on the issue.
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Almost two years after the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union that is considered to have “invented” the Right to be Forgotten, a lot of misinformation still animates the debate. WAN-IFRA comes to the rescue of those who are still unclear on what really happened with a report that goes back to basics and that hopes to contribute to a better-informed discussion, and to a deeper investigation of the next steps. Bottom line: right now newspapers have less to fear from the Right to be Forgotten than what conventional wisdom suggests.
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The European Court of Justice has ruled in favour of the so-called “right to be forgotten”, a decision that will force companies like Google to amend certain search results at the request of users.
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