With some interesting side comments on the nature of copyright breach, the High Court has rejected copyright owners’ proprietary claim to the fruits of an infringement…
Read More… from Copyright, Newzbin’s Ghost and the Fruits of Infringement
The EU Commission has given details of its cybersecurity plan, designed ‘to protect open internet and online freedom and opportunity’…
Chris Marsden and Ian Brown see a regulatory crisis and a prosumer law solution. They explain how regulatory solutions based on code, rather than fines or other traditional methods, can be the right solution in a prosumer world. Chris chaired the SCL Policy Forum 2012….
How do the new technologies associated with e-disclosure sit with the new regime for managing cases and costs that follows on from the Jackson Review? James Morrey-Jones, Tracey Stretton and Mark Surguy explain….
Neil Brown examines the crowdsourced funding web site Kickstarter, asking what Kickstarter needs to do to ensure that consumers are adequately protected against project failure….
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Roger Bickerstaff explains the intricacies of allocating liabilities amongst tower contractors and the role of the SIaM contractor….
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A short report on our first SCL KM Group seminar of 2013 focusing on the use of social media tools for internal knowledge sharing and collaboration….
Read More… from Blogging in business – an inspiring evening with Euan Semple
Considering some of the surprising complexities of IT contracts and looking for suggestions for related topics that SCL might cover…
Read More… from Basic IT Contract Concepts – Surprisingly Obscure
Dave Evans sets out the latest position on the data reform package as viewed from the ICO’s perspective and gives an insight into the ICO focus and actions relating to it. Dave was a participant in the SCL Forum 2012 and this article updates much of what he had to say there….
Read More… from EU Data Protection Reforms: How the Process Works, and What the ICO Is Doing
David Blunt QC considers the lessons from Fairstar v Adkins and the guidance that can be gleaned on ownership of e-mails…
Read More… from The New and the Old – E-mails and the Common Law