IT Law in Ireland

The Irish newspaper industry seems to have chosen today for a bout of collective hyperbole about search engines. Here's what the Examin...

You couldn't make it up. Eircom, not content with shooting itself in the foot by agreeing to introduce a "three strikes" syste...

You might have noticed that Ryanair is busy with litigation against services which screenscrape flight details from its site or act as resel...

The main reason - effectively the only reason - given by Minister Sean Sherlock for pushing ahead with a deeply flawed statutory instrumen...

One of the strongest arguments against the proposed copyright statutory instrument is that it is so vague as to make it impossible to predi...

Senior Counsel John Gordon has a clear explanation as to why Sean Sherlock's proposed copyright regulations are unnecessary in today...

I have an opinion piece in today's Irish Times arguing against current government proposals which would allow internet blocking and more...

It's been a peculiar day in relation to Ireland's SOPA . First of all, junior minister Sean Sherlock said on lunchtime radio tha...

My heart sank when I saw this tweet a few minutes ago: Ireland has angered the hive, we will be reporting all attacks through this accoun...

What's this all about? Long story short: the Irish government plans, before the end of January , to bring in a law which would allow ...

[23.01.12 Hello Redditors! Here's a FAQ with more information.] Adrian Weckler has a worrying piece on government proposals for bloc...

The publicity and success of the anti-SOPA campaign in the US has put internet blocking on the agenda worldwide and Paul Quigley's exce...

Today's Irish Times confirms that the litigation is intended to put pressure on the government in drafting a statutory instrument to a...

The long suffering Irish taxpayer will be delighted to learn that the music industry has joined the queue of those seeking a payout and ...

Blogging has been light in the run up to Christmas and the New Year but there have been a few recent developments which deserve to be not...

I'm delighted to be chairing a conference on copyright reform this Friday (21st October) and would encourage anyone with an interest in...

It's well known that internet blocking is easy to circumvent. Ofcom in today's report "Site Blocking" to reduce online cop...

Yesterday's decision in Twentieth Century Fox v. BT (PDF) introduces mandatory web blocking for the first time in the UK and unsurprisi...

Between the bank holiday weekend and the Sunday Times paywall Mark Tighe's story last week revealing that the Data Protection Commission...

There's a very good IPR conference coming up in Dublin shortly as the Association littéraire et artistique internationale will hold its ...