The CPD questions from the podcast of the recent SCL meeting on Contract Law Update – Exclusion Clauses and Global Claims presented by Alex Charlton QC and Jeremy Mash (SCL Online CPD Course Questions – course code: HW/SFCL39 1.5 hours)…
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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….
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This article from Nick Kounoupias is a guide to the what, when, how, and how much, of bringing criminal proceedings when your copyright is stolen….
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Mark Weston considers the many privacy and data protection issues associated with Google’s new Street View project….
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….
The Home Office laid the final version of the Code ‘Data sharing for the Prevention of Fraud’ before Parliament on 6 October….
The Court of Appeal has given a judgment in Symbian Limited v Comptroller General of Patents which favours the granting of computer patents. But the UK-IPO practice and the EPO practice remain at odds….
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Elizabeth West looks at the challenges faced by law firms when implementing online learning programmes for IT or legal training, and reports on a meeting of the SCL KM Special Interest Group in July, hosted by Lovells LLP….
The podcasts from this highly successful Policy Forum are now available….
Maggi Healey believes that the standard software development contract no longer reflects development process realities. She advocates the use of new contract forms to reflect agile development processes….