Keyword: database rights
- Fixture List Protection (05/05/2010)
Susan Barty and Lucy Kilshaw report on a High Court ruling of 24 April which held that football fixture lists can be protected by copyright and which makes interesting reading for those interested in the database right. - Protection of Databases (31/03/2009)
Andrew Dodd and Louisa Albertini review the latest case law from the European Court of Justice on the database right - Does Database Right Prevent Consultation? (08/01/2009)
Renzo Marchini and Tim Browning look at the case of Directmedia Publishing GmbH v Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and speculate about the grey line between consultation and extraction. - The Open Source Software Crunch (02/12/2008)
David Boutcher and Bob Stankey ask: Will unmanaged OSS use make it harder to get financing and ultimately find a buyer for a technology-dependent business? - Intelligent Agents and Internet Commerce in Ancient Rome (15/10/2008)
Andrew Katz highlights the lessons that might be learned from the conduct of commerce in Ancient Rome. He identifies the parallels between the role of slaves and the regulation of intelligent agents in the modern world. - Open Source and Branding (09/10/2008)
Branding really matters in the free and open source software (FOSS) world. Alex Newson explores the legal issues and the protection available to open source contributors and projects who care about their brand. - Does Street View Have Street Cred? (09/10/2008)
Mark Weston considers the many privacy and data protection issues associated with Google’s new Street View project. - Profiling Web Users – Some Intellectual Property Problems (05/09/2008)
In this highly original analysis, Nicholas Bohm and Joel Harrison take a fresh look, from a very different angle, at the issues that arise from Web profiling. Does it infringe Web site owners’ IPR? - Screen-scraping, Ryanair and Contracts (15/08/2008)
Catherine Stromdale considers the threat from Ryanair to cancel scraped flights. How can the way a contract comes into being affect its enforceability? Who will be left to deal with the losses arising? - BAILII's Continuing Expansion (29/07/2008)
Clive Freedman and Joe Ury report on the latest BAILII developments – a story of continuing success, and continuing need for contributions.
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