#ECJMurphy: Football in the Pub: blogging from City Law School event
Wifi permitting, we’ll be live blogging from tonight’s event at City Law School: ‘Football, Broadcasting and the Internal Market: Is a common audio-visual space in sight?’ which follows the recent ECJ...
View ArticleMurphy v Media Protection Services: not a clearcut victory
One view seemed to dominate last night’s City Law School event: the implications of the ECJ judgment in combined cases FA Premier League & Ors v QC Leisure and Murphy v Media Protection Services...
View ArticleLorna Woods: Google and Data Protection – Again!
By Professor Lorna Woods A new reference has landed on the ECJ’s desk: Google Spain and Google (Case C-131/12) from the Audiencia Nacional in Spain. The ECJ official website is a bit thin on details,...
View ArticleGoogle Spain – Background
By Professor Lorna Woods Background The case before the ECJ arises from a reference from a Spanish appeal court, the Audiencia Nacional, and concerns the applicant’s claim that Google should remove...
View ArticleGoogle Spain: Blog Roundtable and Panel Debate
On 13 May, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice is due to hand down its long-awaited judgment on Google Spain. This case raises several interesting human rights issues, including the...
View ArticleGoogle Spain: Freedom of Expression and the Right to be Forgotten
By Professor Lorna Woods Case C-131/12 Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja González, judgment 13th May 2014 The ECJ today handed down a case...
View ArticleGoogle Spain: ECJ has straightjacketed the librarian
By Peter Noorlander In 1997, the US Supreme Court in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union described the Internet as a dramatic new marketplace of ideas, referring to it as a “vast library” of...
View ArticleGoogle Spain and the EU’s data protection Directive
By Professor Steve Peers The EU’s data protection Directive was adopted in 1995, when the Internet was in its infancy, and most or all Internet household names did not exist. In particular, the first...
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