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Commerce, Contracts & Finance
The Devil is in the Detail
Apparently, nobody reads online terms and conditions. So why are you wasting your time drafting them properly?…
Online Purchase Returns and Reimbursement of Charges
The European Court of Justice has given its interpretation of the Distance Selling Directive and ruled that any delivery charges must be reimbursed….
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Digital Economy Act Published
The Digital Economy Act 2010 has now been published…
Bastions of Democracy
Heaven knows, MPs are not much loved but they have their moments. Judging from the Digital Economy Bill debate, they appear to be increasingly irrelevant…
Digital Economy Act: Online Infringement and Cost-Sharing Consultation
The BIS has issued a new consultation on Online Infringement of Copyright (Initial Obligations) Cost-Sharing and SCL is preparing to respond…
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SCL IT Contracts Update: Online CPD Course from the seminar given by Richard Stephens – 24 February 2010
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…
Copyright Infringement and Intermediaries: Twentieth Century Fox v Newzbin
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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Subjected to Contract
Mark Lewis reports and comments on an important Supreme Court judgment on contract, where the Court was asked ‘when is a subject to contract agreement a binding contract?’…
Don’t Oversell: The Misrepresentation Problem
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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