Delia Venables is a computer consultant for lawyers and also editor of theInternet Newsletter for Lawyers. She can be contacted on 01273 472424 or delia@venables.co.ukand her web pages are at http://www.venables.co.uk/legal/ This article explains some of the trends and ‘buzzwords’ currentlyassociated with developments on the Internet. Some of these are associated thedevelopment of e-commerce –…
William Cook is a solicitor in the Intellectual Property andCommunications Groups at Simmons & Simmons, with particular experience inpatent litigation and advice relating to copyright and other forms of protectionof computer software. The recent decision in Mars UK Ltd v Teknowledge (11 June 1999) raisesimportant issues for companies making goods containing computer software, inparticular concerning…
Richard Blasdale is a Managing Consultant with Grant Thorntonand has over ten years’ experience in advising legal firms on IT relatedmatters. For many of us, ‘working from home’ used to be a way to escape thephone and get some serious thinking, drafting (or even gardening!) done. Now,technology enables us to work away from the office…
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Andrew Katz, Brethertons Thank you for yet another interesting and informative Computers and Law.May I be permitted to make the following point about computer cryptography: Since the technology is now widely available to enable anyone with access tothe Internet to encrypt information in a way which we are led to believe ispractically uncrackable (for example…
Jon Vogler, Active Backup Delia Venables’ Ten Tasks for 1999 (Dec/Jan issue) was practical anddown-to-earth advice. But by writing (in this and earlier articles) exclusivelyabout PCs she is creating the problems her advice aims to solve. Phrases like`their networks do not run very well’ or `are people allowed to put disks intotheir own PCs’ or…
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Jean Hurley is Know-how Officer at Simmons & Simmons….
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