Keyword: internet
- Internet Gambling and Free Trade (29/07/2010)
Jimmy Desai offers a summary of recent developments affecting the law on Internet gambling in the EU. - DEA 2010: Wi-fi Liability (06/07/2010)
Mark Weston explores the legal problems associated with wi-fi Internet access and considers the effect of the Digital Economy Act 2010 - Machines Behaving Badly (29/06/2010)
Kirsten Whitfield reports on a joint meeting of the SCL London Group and Privacy & Data Protection Interest Group held on 27 May. Mark Watts of Bristows and Eduardo Ustaran of Field Fisher Waterhouse were the speakers at a lively meeting. - Digital Music and Online Intermediaries (27/05/2010)
The Trustees of SCL are delighted to adopt this important contribution to the debate on solutions to the problem of unlawful file-sharing and its effect on copyright holders as an SCL Policy Document. The Document, written by Professor Chris Reed and Berna Akcali Gur, reviews the legal issues surrounding copyright in digital music and the potential liability of ISPs and suggests a move to a long-term solution where access providers pay licence fees to content owners – and users receive the music free of restriction. The Paper is one product of the highly successful SCL Forum, held in September 2009 and hosted and sponsored by Herbert Smith LLP. - What Price Paid for Content? (24/03/2010)
Tom Lingard and Theo Varcoe review the various revenue-raising models that newspapers, and the publishing industry in general, are having to consider. They also look at the difficulties that may arise on enforcing payment for protected online content. - The Internet and Criminal Jurisdiction (18/03/2010)
Julia Hörnle provides a review of the Court of Appeal judgment in R v Sheppard and Whittle, which focused on the test to determine whether the English courts have jurisdiction in a criminal case involving a foreign web site. - Why the SABAM v Tiscali Questions Matter (22/02/2010)
In the latest development in the long-running dispute between SABAM and Tiscali, the questions from the Belgian court to the ECJ have been published. Chris Watson, Tom Scourfield and Scott Fairbairn explain why those questions, and of course their answers, might matter to you. - Criminal Prosecution and Online Copyright Infringement (19/01/2010)
Mikko Manner considers the utilization of criminal prosecution against copyright infringement in the context of online distribution services by specific reference to The Pirate Bay - Do We Need a Constitution for the Information Age? (13/01/2010)
Mark Turner examines the defects in existing systems for agreeing international obligations of the kind that are vital to the flowering of the information age. The disintermediation of government leads him to suggest a constitutional convention for the information age. - Stuck in ‘Neutral’? Google, AdWords and the E-Commerce Directive Immunities (13/12/2009)
Lilian Edwards considers the foundation of the ‘immunity’ granted to information society service providers by the E-Commerce Directive. She asks whether the emphasis laid in the recent Attorney General’s Opinion in ‘the AdWords case’ on neutrality as a qualification for that immunity is justified.
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