Where is the ePrivacy Regulation?
Debbie Heywood provides a timely update on the progress of the ePrivacy Regulation and considers whether the latest draft differs from the current state of play in terms of cookies and direct marketing….
Intellectual Property
Telecoms Code: Operators’ Entitlement to Survey New Sites
Richard Willcox covers an important decision on the new Electronic Communications Code, which answers the hotly-contested issue of whether landowners can avoid the imposition of telecoms apparatus by preventing operators from undertaking initial suitability surveys….
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Contract Law – in Retrospect and in Prospect
For the last ten years Richard Stephens has provided an annual update on contract law for the SCL and also offers it by way of internal training for law firms and in-house legal departments. That puts him in a superb position to take a look at what has happened over the last decade and think about the major themes in contracts and contract law over those years. This is the latest in our series of articles from the Tech Law Masterclass appearing in the October/November issue of Computers & Law….
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Unfair Advantage of Famous Reputation Brands?
Lakmal Walawage considers questions about trade marks and domain names following the Court of Appeal ruling in Argos Ltd v Argos Systems Inc, taking account of the impact online, internationally and programmatically…
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FRAND and STEP: Latest Judgment from the Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal has upheld the ruling of Birss J in Unwired Planet v Huawei….
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Whither FinTech? Whither AI?
In another teaser from the forthcoming issue of Computers & Law, Simon Deane-Johns asks some searching questions about short-term problems and long-term challenges…
Cracking the Code
In a further preview of our Tech Law Masterclass, here is Rosemary Jay on the role of codes of practice under the Data Protection Act 2018….
German File-sharing Defence Undermined in CJEU Judgment
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the owner of an internet connection used for copyright infringements through file-sharing cannot be exonerated from liability simply by naming a family member who might have had access to that connection. There has to be an effective remedy for owner of the copyright….
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When to Conduct DPIAs?
Kuan Hon analyses the EDPB’s first set of consistency opinions on national DPIA lists…
The Regulated End of Internet Law, and the Return to Computer and Information Law?
It seemed unfair to hang on to this article from Professor Chris Marsden, another in our Tech Law Masterclass series for the October/November issue, when Internet regulation is such a hot topic. Chris looks back at the Internet’s legal history, with a view to helping us to move forward in an informed manner…
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