On March 22, 2022, Russian lawmakers amended the “fake news” laws with fines and prison sentences. The law, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 4, criminalized specific types of news coverage over the invasion of Ukraine and could force more social networks out of the country. From P...
On September 25, 2017, for the first time in the country’s history, a Peruvian prosecutor ordered that three copyright-infringing websites popular in Latin America be raided, their physical assets seized, as well as the domain names associated with the platforms.
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Spanish police this morning raided the offices of .cat gTLD registry Fundació puntCAT, just days after demanding the company shut down any domains referring to a forthcoming referendum. From Domain Incite.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will be joined by the leaders of France and Italy in calling for terrorist content to be removed from the internet within one to two hours after it has been posted. From CBS News.
The Russian government continues to enforce stringent measures in order to block its national consumers from accessing unlicensed international betting operator services. From SBC News.
The Spanish Supreme Court (TS) has recently ruled on the legality of using someone else’s trademark as a keyword to trigger sponsored ads in Google Adwords. The case is Maherlo v Charlet (pdf, in Spanish).
The claimant, Maherlo Ibérica S.L., commercializes elevator shoes for men—shoes with raised...
This article is cross-posted with author's personal blog.
On Thursday, the German Federal Supreme Court issued a press release informing that it has decided two long-excepted website blocking cases (I ZR 3/14, I ZR 174/14). Although we still have to wait couple of months for the text of the decision...