Brussels Wakes up to the Sound of Streaming
There is a draft revision of the TWF Directive which would see it cover AVMS. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is seeking comment. Alex Lundie tells you what you need to know about it….
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Ten Green Bottles
Videss is acquired by Computer Software Group…
Open Source: History
Andrew Katz provides a companion piece to his article in the June/July issue of the magazine, Open Source Software: An Opening Resource, in this article outlining the history of open source….
Contracting for Disaster
Kit Burden highlights the importance of contracts for disaster recovery and business continuity services and suggests some terms which require special attention….
Signing Hundreds of Contracts Online Made Easy.
Simon Deane-Johns and Tim Parlett explain how they used technology to leap over a major operational and regulatory hurdle….
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Construction of Contracts
Anna Cook examines judicial views on the weight to be attached to extrinsic evidence when interpreting contracts….
Technology Based Outsourcing: The Long and Short of it All
Pearse Ryan discusses issues relating to deal flexibility over the medium to long term, with reference to technology based outsourcing….
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Editorial
The public sector is under an enormous amount of pressure to be seen to be doing something about IT. That pressure has been applied for many years, by Government decrees and some wildly optimistic targets for e-government. But it also arises from real world expectations and the need to save money, which IT-related increases in…
Sourcing in a Multi-Vendor Environment
Duncan Pithouse considers some of the principal contractual issues arising when implementing a multi-sourcing strategy….
New OFT Guidance on IT Consumer Contracts
Nick Graham and Mark Young give the low-down on the OFT Guidance….