News, Articles and Blogs
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News
Free, open access to all the latest IT law developments
- Identity Assurance: Consultation
- Smart Borders – Not DP Smart Enough
- SCL Meeting Report: ‘A review of contractual frameworks, issues and risks in Cloud Computing’
- Two New Monetary Penalties Imposed
- Article 29 Working Party’s View on Profiling
- EU Directive on Network and Information Security: Consultation
- Latest Data Protection Act Prosecution
- Interflora v Marks and Spencer: Adword Use Infringed Trade Mark
- Change of SCL Management Arrangements
Articles
The latest ideas about IT law in practice written by leading thinkers and practitioners (mostly members only)
- Irish Presidency Proposes Risk-Based Adjustments to Proposed EU Data Protection Regulation
- Learning to Code
- BYOD in Law Firms
- A Brave New World Demands Brave New Thinking
- Software Patentability: Is the USA Following Europe?
- Carry on Automat(r)on: Legal and Ethical Issues relating to Healthcare Robots
- Supreme Court's Opinion: Browsing on the Internet Does Not Require a Licence
- Cost Management and Budgeting: the Absurdities of Precedent H
- Data in a Crisis - Manage Your Risk
- XP – Final Warning!
- Recollections of SCL in the 1980s and Early 1990s
Blogs
Read the latest views, insights and comments on all things IT law
- The Downing Street Lovers and the Information Commissioner
- Innocent Face and Mischief
- Shocking: Unprepared
- Big Data: Big Issues?
- An SCL Standard-form IT Services Contract?
- Free Speech: A Bit of a Nuisance
- Blogging in business - an inspiring evening with Euan Semple
- Basic IT Contract Concepts - Surprisingly Obscure
- My Pedantic Position on EU Online Rights
- Cloud, data protection and more in 2013
- Predictions 2013, and beyond: Part 11, Closing Statements?
- Looking after the Basics
- Too Rich or Just Ignorant?
C&L Magazine
Contents of the latest issue of C&L Magazine are listed below. To browse back issues, click the 'See All' link at the bottom
April 2013 / May 2013
Vol 24, Iss 1
- Editorial
- Security for Sub-licensees?
- Tamiz v Google: the Court of Appeal Verdict
- Computer Program Functionality and Copyright: SAS v WPL
- Database Right: Joint Tortfeasor Fear
- Big Data, Open Data, Midata… It’s All Linked
- The Big Data Explosion: A New Frontier in Digital Law
- Now is the Time to Say Goodbye
- Bad Bots
- The Aerial Gaze: Regulating Domestic Drones in the UK
- Data Protection: Facebook and the Right Kind of Establishment
- An Introduction to Legal Project Management
- Under the Surface
Comments
- Learning to Code
@Gillian I have a standard mini-presentation I sometimes give to IT folk, where I say that coders think in binary, but lawyers think spectrum or shades of grey eg https://twitter.com/charlottejee/status/334997091761938432 And I throw in the Chancellor's ... Kuan Hon, 17/06/2013 18:33:44 - Learning to Code
Very true Gillian - there is certainty in code! Really interesting though that this morning I received a licence agreement from an IT client to review and their comments on the document reflected a really solid understanding of the legal import of certain... Edward Boal, 06/06/2013 14:34:50 - Learning to Code
Speaking from the other side of the fence as an IT professional turned expert witness I think there are definite similarities between the law and IT - but significant differences too. Similarities - the need to understand a large body of rules before you ... Gillian Hunt, 06/06/2013 13:43:00
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