Law Commission seeks views on smart contracts and digital assets
Projects aims to ensure that English law can meet the growing use of smart contracts and tackle “possession” of digital assets.
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The Google v Oracle software copyright case in the US Supreme Court has been billed as the copyright case of the decade. Chris Kemp, Associate at Kemp IT Law, looks at the issues at stake.
Projects aims to ensure that English law can meet the growing use of smart contracts and tackle “possession” of digital assets.
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Neil Brown looks at the legal issues arising from the emergence of the latest iteration of [insertsomethinghere]tech – SafetyTech.
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In a companion piece to their recent article on the reasons for IT project failure, Lee Gluyas and William Hooper review the steps that can be taken to protect a party's position where a project is failing but recovery is being attempted.
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CMA responds to EU Digital Services Act consultation, Cloud Industry standard for data transfers, EU report on Code on Disinformation and more in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week.
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The CJEU upheld the principle of net neutrality when considering packages offered by a service provider in Hungary.
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A service using an electronic app to connect passengers with taxi drivers is an Information Society service under the E-Commerce Directive (2000/31/EC), as long as the app is not be inherently linked to the taxi transport service so that it does not form an integral part of it.
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Opinion in Case C-392/19 VG Bild-Kunst v Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz: inline linking requires the consent of rights-holders, but clickable links using framing do not, even if anti-copying measures are circumvented.
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This entry to our annual Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize by Benjamin Evans from the University of East Anglia was highly commended by the judges. A second highly commended entry will be published next week.
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Changes would ensure more clarity and more effective targeting of serious harm and criminality.
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Application refused as there were triable issues on subsistence and infringement.
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New guidance on remote evidence, cybersecurity, EPO report on 3D technologies, Update on US-Swiss Privacy Shield, ICO fine for pension calls, ICO innovation hub update, CJEU decision on Roaming Regulation and more in this week’s round-up of techlaw news from the past week.
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National data strategy consultation launched closing on 2 December.
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Anne Rose & Sian Harding summarise new guidance on blockchain law and regulation published by the Law Society.
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Disclosures of official secrets could be made for legal advice purposes if lawyers have been pre-vetted.
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Call for views sets out how the IPO believes the IP framework currently relates to AI and raises a number of questions which the IPO believes are of central importance to the future of AI and IP policy.
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