Julia Hörnle reports on the Court of Justice judgment in the Google AdWords case but questions whether the judgment gives quite as much freedom to Google as some have suggested….
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CPD questions for the IT Contract Update presented by Richard Stephens on 24 February 2010. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL16 – 3 hours…
The Department for Business Innovation & Skills has published its latest draft for the controversial clause 18…
Rob Lancashire believes that the ubiquity of the Smartphone is going to be the main driver for digital dictation in 2010 for both traditional and hosted models…
The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint about an entry by Rod Liddle in his blog for the Spectator….
The High Court has found that a company which indexes and collates media files is liable for authorising infringement. The judgment casts an interesting light on the role of many service providers who claim to be merely passive elements in the copyright infringement process and ‘content agnostic’….
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Members of the Motion Picture Association had a big win in the High Court this week. And then asked themselves an interesting question….
An action for libel was struck out where the original article was archived and could be read only in the context of later pieces which removed any sting. Moreover, it was held that a publisher could not be liable if a Google search snippet was defamatory when the original material from which it was derived was not….
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Bob Hadingham reminds readers of the crucial role that technology can play in ensuring that lawyers stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly changing, and ruthlessly competitive, future for the supply of legal services….
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Michael Frisby extracts one clear message from BSkyB v EDS, a message that needs to be carefully digested: it can be a thin line between overselling and fraudulent misrepresentation…
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