Jonathan Palmer reviews an uncomfortable history and looks to an interesting future, while creating his very own patentability scale….
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UK government publishes amendments to Digital Economy Bill that significantly water down the powers proposed to be given to the Secretary of State to enable amendment of UK copyright law….
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Mark Turner examines the defects in existing systems for agreeing international obligations of the kind that are vital to the flowering of the information age. The disintermediation of government leads him to suggest a constitutional convention for the information age….
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Joel Harrison bemoans the unnecessary hurdles placed in the way of transfers to data processors outside the EEA. He suggests a way to end the ‘burden’ on gleeful bureaucrats and ease the life of the data protection lawyer….
There’s nothing like a trip to the DIY store to bring home the importance of privacy, or lack of it….
We asked experts in various fields for their take on likely developments for 2010 and beyond. The predictions are published on the SCL Web site. This is a selection of predictions relating to IT law and the changes that are likely to affect the practice of it….
The decision of his Honour Justice Byrne in the Supreme Court of Victoria in the case ofIpex ITG Pty Ltd (in liq) v Melbourne Water Corporation (No 5) [2009] VSC 383 (11 September 2009), involved an IT service provider (Ipex) suing its customer (Melbourne Water) in respect of misrepresentations that were allegedly contained in Melbourne…
The US Federal Appeals Court has upheld the injunction prohibiting sales of any version of Word including a feature patented by Canadian firm i4i….
Chris James writes about understanding and advising on server virtualisation…
The European Commission has accepted legally binding commitments offered by Microsoft which are expected to boost competition on the web browser market. Read the basics plus comment from Stephen Hornsby….