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E-Commerce and New Media

Our e-commerce activities include advising on commercial arrangements with content and service providers, web-based software and system development and licensing, B2B and B2C structures, application service provider (ASP) agreements, on-line contracting and on-line liability issues, privacy policy and data processing arrangements, internet hosting and collocation arrangements, on-line defamation matters and all aspects of on-line intellectual property protection, infringement and exploitation.

We also advise on regulatory issues spanning digital signature regulation, electronic contracting, on-line liability, encryption, electronic payment systems, distance selling, consumer protection and data protection and privacy.
Matters on which our lawyers have worked include:

  • Advising Ask.com on on-line terms and conditions and privacy matters.
  • Advising CMC Markets plc, a leading software-based exchange trading platform, on its agreements and basis of trading.
  • Advising Fish4 Trading Ltd on e-commerce matters.
  • Advising Future Internet Technologies on e-commerce issues, including domain name registration and acquisition, and contracting strategies.
  • Advising iVillage on online terms and conditions.
  • Advising Ritz Casino Online on e-poker and banking arrangements.
  • Advising SIMAlliance on click-through licensing terms.
  • Advising Virgin Net (now Virgin Media) on commercial arrangements including disposal of SME portal Virgin Biznet and its VISP network access with NTL.
  • Advising Whereonearth, a geolocation technology company on strategic licensing arrangements with Microsoft and Yahoo! in relation to Internet search.


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