... Hace unos días la Federal Trade Commission (FTC) estadounidense hizo pública la propuesta de acuerdo de transacción con Facebook para poner fin al procedimiento abierto contra esta red social por sus prácticas en materia de protección de datos personales. Así, la reclamación frente a Facebook se funda básicamente en que ha infringido ciertas normas de la Federal Trade Commission Act debido principalmente a que el incumplimiento de los compromisos que en materia de protección de datos ha asumido la red social con sus usuarios –típicamente a través del contenido de su Política de privacidad y del resto de sus declaraciones y prácticas ... ...
... It would also considerably reduce litigation costs and the time it takes to resolve patent disputes. (2) Trade marks: It's been over 15 years since the harmonisation of domestic trade mark legislation and the creation of the Community trade mark. The Commission intends to present proposals to revise both the Community Trade Mark Regulation and the Trade Mark Directive in the last quarter of 2011. (3) Geographical indications (GIs): GIs secure a link between a product's quality and its geographical origin. The Commission's focus will be two-fold. The Commission is currently analysing the results of a public consultation on the Directive's implementation in order to quantify the impact of the hereditary resale right on the Internal Market. (6) As part of its long-term strategy on copyright, the Commission will assess the feasibility of creating a European Copyright Code. Concerning enforcement in the Strategy, what is the Commission's position regarding illegal downloading? ...
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... The European Commission has published a communication providing guidance on its enforcement priorities in applying Art. 82 EC to abusive exclusionary conduct of dominant undertakings. The author then addresses the scope of the communication against the background of the case law on the Commission's discretion (not) to pursue cases (section III). Wolfgang Wurmnest, Unilateral Restrictions of Parallel Trade by Dominant Pharmaceutical Companies - Protection of Innovation or Anti-competitive Market Foreclosure? Limitations of parallel trade were therefore treated as restrictions of competition. It is argued that the ECJ was right in denying pharmaceutical companies a general right to limit the flow of pharmaceutical products by unilateral measures as the pro-competitive effects of parallel trade are greater than often assumed. ...
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... Pero es que el Sr. Ros sigue a lo suyo: "He added that the Spanish government is seeking ways, under existing authority, to pursue and take out of commission some 100 websites that are responsible for perhaps as much as 80 percent of infringing content. Cursos de formación que ya se iniciaron en 2004, como se expone en este cable de 3 de marzo de 2004: Last year Spain's Interministerial Anti-Piracy Commission and the Consejo Superior Judicial (Spanish administrative body which oversees the courts) signed an agreement to train judges on IP issues. In a meeting with Charge, MPAA CEO Dan Glickman expressed satisfaction with his meetings with Industry, Tourism, and Trade Minister Miguel Sebastian and Minister of Culture Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde. ...
... Ante ese hecho la FTC (Federal Trade Commission) reaccionó presentado una demanda contra Toysmart.com (para más detalles véase FTC v. Toysmart.com), alegando no solo la infracción de la normativa reguladora de los consumidores y de los usuarios –pues entendía que la obligación de privacidad formaba parte del contrato entre la empresa y el cliente- sino de la propia política de privac... No hemos podido conocer el proceso que llevó a Toysmart.com a tomar esta nefasta decisión, ni la razón de la amnesia sobrevenida que provocó que la misma empresa que se había adherido a esa certificación de privacidad, se olvidara sin mas de sus propias promesas, pero lo que más sorprende de este caso es que nadie dentro de Toysmart hiciera saltar las alarmas ante la propuesta de venta... ...
... El 17 de diciembre, el Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) y varias asociaciones defensoras de la privacidad denunciaron a Facebook ante el Departamento Federal de Comercio (Federal Trade Commission). Hay que tener en cuenta que en USA no existe una normativa omnicomprensiva sobre la privacidad, sino que es sectorial y está bastante fragmentada, y la mayoría de las infracciones contra la privacidad son tratadas como prácticas comerciales engañosas (“deceptive trade practices”). ...
... La investigación es una iniciativa de la Federal Trade Commission (FTC) norteamericana y se extenderá al modo en que las empresas realizan la gestión de identidades en sus sistemas y aplicaciones. ...