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Modern monarchy and the media: Duchess of Sussex wins historic privacy case against the British tabloids

IP Whiteboard

The Duchess of Sussex) was recently granted summary judgment in a privacy claim against Associated Newspapers Limited, over the publication of extracts from a hand-written letter to her father (see HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) ). Background. The Duke of Sussex, a.k.a.

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Kevin Kruse Cleared of Plagiarism Though Questions Remain

Plagiarism Today

At that time, Kruse was facing allegations that he had committed plagiarism, first in his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University and later in his 2015 book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. They have obligations to both student and employee privacy that has to be maintained.

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Today at noon EST: free HLS webinar on developing professionalism in students

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He has written and spoken widely on copyright, privacy and other areas of technology law. In 2015, he authored The Duty of Confidentiality in the Surveillance Age, 17 J. In 2015, he authored The Duty of Confidentiality in the Surveillance Age, 17 J. Internet L. 1 (2014) (with Lee et al.).

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HLS teaching series: Developing Professionalism in Students, March 21, at 12 noon EST

43(B)log

He has written and spoken widely on copyright, privacy and other areas of technology law. In 2015, he authored The Duty of Confidentiality in the Surveillance Age, 17 J. In 2015, he authored The Duty of Confidentiality in the Surveillance Age, 17 J. Internet L. 1 (2014) (with Lee et al.).

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Legality of Recording Phone Calls in India & Admissibility of Such Evidence Before the Court

IP and Legal Filings

The question of intruding into privacy arises when someone eavesdrops on the conversation of participants of the call. 1] Of course, tapping a person’s phone constitutes a serious invasion of their privacy and violates Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution. [2] Privacy depends on individual decisions dictating a way of life.

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The Epic Trade Secret Saga Continues – Will the Supreme Court take the case?

LexBlog IP

As readers of this blog may remember, the case originated in Wisconsin in 2015, where Epic asserted that Tata had unlawfully accessed Epic’s UserWeb to download more than one thousand unique files containing confidential information in order to develop a competing product.

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Kim Dotcom Not Happy, Says ‘Mega Mass Piracy Report’ is On the Way

TorrentFreak

Ortmann gave up his directorship on April 1, 2015, but along with colleague van der Kolk, he still works at Mega today. That certainly wasn’t the case when users were invited to join the privacy-focused site when it launched. During the summer of 2013, Dotcom declared he was done with Mega and was no longer a shareholder.