"Safeguards should be provided for subscribers against intrusion of their privacy by unsolicited communications for direct marketing purposes in particular by means of automated calling machine, telefaxes and email, including SMS messages. These forms of unsolicited commercial communications may on the one hand be relatively cheap and easy to send and on the other may impose a burden and/or cost on the recipient. Moreover, in some cases their volume may also cause difficulties for electronic communications networks and terminal equipment. For such forms of unsolicited communications for direct marketing, it is justified to require that prior explicit consent of the recipients is obtained before such communications are addressed to them."
Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 12th July 2002
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Thank yous
A big thank you is owed to D L Legal LLP (Internet and IP Lawyers, London) and to The Spamhaus Project for assistance and support over recent weeks.
Also to AOL for their recent offer of assistance.
Google seems to have had a happy brainstorm recently . . at the beginning of 2006 it showed just under 1000 hits which appear to relate to the case .. now it's showing over 15,000! Check here for the latest.
Useful and interesting links
Spam Laws around the world
European Law in the UK
Edinburgh Law School commentary
Guernsey and Jersey domain names (0% spam tolerance)
Scottish Law Society commentary
Lexis Nexis
Please note
This site is about the recently settled Claim in the English County Court between Nigel Roberts and an English email and fax marketing company Medial Logistics (UK) Limited with offices in Falkirk, Scotland. It should be noted that that Media Logistics GmbH (a German design company of note) appears to have nothing to do with the UK company. (They are at an address in the .COM domain,whereas the Scottish email marketing company's website address ends in '.NET').
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