US Supreme Court Ruling in MGM v Grokster
The US Supreme Court has ruled against Grokster on the use of file-sharing and liability for breach of copyright….
Intellectual Property
Compulsory Licensing of IP and the Microsoft Saga: A drastic remedy or what the market deserves?
Davina Garrod reports and comments on a controversial decision which just might change the IT industry for ever….
Editorial
Webinars A few weeks ago I would not have recognised the word “Webinar” (I suppose I have to admit that it is a word) but now it is part of SCL life. For those of you who have slept through this particular development, a Webinar is a meeting, seminar or workshop which can be “attended”…
cyber alert
Laurence Eastham reviews a new book from Peter Warren and Michael Streeter cyber alert: How the World is Under Attack from a New Form of Crime (ISBN 1-904132-62-6, Vision Publishing £10.99)….
Data Protection and Offshore Outsourcing: Did he or didn’t he?
Given the complicated matters that are often resolved by a given piece of legislation, you might expect the resulting law to be able to easily, and with a high degree of certainty, determine whether an individual had said yes or no – particularly when the matter in question is not a serious criminal offence. Well, think again. Then extend that wooliness into the world of outsourcing and the problems begin to multiply, as Tim Pullan of Lawrence Graham explains….
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Minors, Mobiles and the Law: Review comments
Stephen Deadman, Senior Solicitor at Vodafone, comments on a recent article and explains why he thinks the use of mobiles by minors carries little legal risk….
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Human Rights in the Digital Age
Privacy and anonymity are concepts that appear to be rapidly fading away into insignificance as networked communications become ubiquitous. This is an issue that is raised, together with the development of human rights, in the recent text Mapping the Global Future A Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project NIC 2004-13, December 2004). A…
Apple Corps Ltd v Apple Computer Inc: Jurisdiction
Sarah Wood summarises and comments on this case, which concerned the allocation of jurisdiction in a trade mark claim, for the purposes of service out of the jurisdiction under CPR 6.20, where a contract intentionally contains no governing law or jurisdictional clause….
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Construction of Commercial Agreements in an IT Context
Duncan McCall and Thomas Crangle of 4 Pump Court use a recent Court of Appeal case to illustrate some aspects of the approach taken in practice to the interpretation of IT agreements….
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E-Commerce ADR Growth in the USA and the Lessons for the UK
Jeffrey S. Wolfe examines the push to resolve e-commerce disputes by ADR and the implications for consumers and for traditional dispute resolution….
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