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September 14, 2010

12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT

So you think your business practices are EU-compliant? You could be blindsided by European laws and regulations that are foreign—in every sense of the word—to your accustomed way of doing business. The recent conviction of three Google executives by an Italian judge is one notable example.

Don’t be caught off guard. Join Pike & Fischer’s panel of legal experts as they expose European laws (both enacted and proposed) that potentially render U.S.-based Internet businesses liable for intellectual property, privacy, e-commerce, speech, and other violations.

What Will Be Covered:

Liability for user-generated content
Data retention obligations
Online brand protection in Europe
Domain names and the new gTLD environment
Collection of personal data
Credit cards and other financial practices
Tax collection
Criminal liability
Venues for dispute resolution

Who Should Attend:

IP attorneys
Privacy advocates
Web 2.0 businesses
Trademark owners
In-house counsel
Internet service providers
E-commerce companies
Free speech advocates
Consumer regulatory counsel

About the Speakers:

Moderator: Christopher Wolf, Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP - Chris Wolf is widely recognized as one of the leading American practitioners in the field of privacy and data security law. He is known to clients as a practical problem solver on issues arising from the collection use, retention, sharing, and security of personal data; as a thoughtful compliance counselor focused on risk management; and as an effective advocate in federal court, at the Federal Trade Commission or before state agencies, on the entire range of international and domestic privacy issues. Chris is a 1980 magna cum laude, Order of the Coif graduate of the law school at Washington & Lee University, where he served on Law Review and was a Teaching Fellow. He graduated in 1976, cum laude, from Bowdoin College and was a General Course participant at the London School of Economics & Political Science. He clerked for U.S. District Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr. in Washington, DC before entering private practice.

Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel, Google - Peter Fleischer works as Google’s Global Privacy Counsel. His job is to ensure that Google protects its users’ privacy, meets all privacy legal obligations, and helps to raise the bar in terms of privacy protection on the Internet. Peter is particularly committed to engaging with privacy stakeholders, advocates and regulators to ensure that Google is responsive to their privacy expectations. He works closely with public policy makers around the world to help update data protection concepts for the Information Age. Peter has over 10 years’ experience in the field of data protection, including his prior position as Microsoft’s privacy lead for Europe and Director of Regulatory Affairs. Peter was educated in the US (Harvard College and Harvard Law School) and in Germany (LMU- Munich), and has worked for the last decade in Paris.

Winston Maxwell, Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP, Paris - Winston Maxwell is a partner in Hogan Lovells' Paris office. He has over 20 years experience of advising on a wide range of corporate, regulatory and litigation matters for TMT sector clients, specifically in the film and television and telecommunications and Internet sectors. Winston has participated in European telecommunications liberalization initiatives, and recently authored a major treatise on European communications and data protection law. He has worked on numerous M&A transactions and joint ventures in the communications, media and entertainment field, as well as serving as counsel to various regulatory bodies in Europe regarding the changing face of the TMT sector.

David Taylor, Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP, Paris - David Taylor is a partner in the Intellectual Property, Media and Technology Group. He specialises in Internet related intellectual property, and in particular the protection of brands online, thus trade mark and copyright issues, domain names (registration, recuperation and management of client portfolios via the Anchovy® service), data protection, web site design and development, encryption regulation and security issues, together with software licensing and development agreements. He is a domain name panelist / expert / arbitrator with WIPO, Nominet and the Czech Arbitration Court. He has a Masters of Engineering from Birmingham University and a PhD in Physics from Grenoble, France.

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