Technology Joint Ventures
Richard Raysman and Peter Brown share their views on, and considerable experience of, the drafting of joint venture agreements….
Intellectual Property
Online Licensing of Entertainment and Information
Clive Davies reviews and comments upon the current state of online licensing of software and the associated legal implications and addresses the new models for the distribution of software as a service available on demand. He also contrasts some of the legal and other issues that apply to software with other online media in the music and film area….
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Teething Troubles with Bluetooth?
Bluejacking, Bluesnarfing and Bluetooth – William Betts has the Blues covered….
Future Gazing about the Internet and the Web
The SCL’s Internet Interest Group assembled an expert panel at Charles Russell to peer into the future of the Internet and the Web over the next five to ten years. Laurie Kaye of Laurence Kaye Solicitors, who was Panel Chairman and devised and organised the event, lent them the special SCL crystal ball….
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Iron Laws of Cyberspace The Need for Multidisciplinary Perspectives
William Dutton reviews a series of well known IT legal aphorisms from the perspective of a social scientist. This is an edited version of his Keynote Address to the IFCLA Conference in July….
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Database Right: The Advocate General’s Opinion
Richard Waller summarises the recent opinion of Advocate General Stix-Hackl in the case of The British Horseracing Board Limited and Others v William Hill Organisation Limited which has sought to clarify some of the concepts introduced by European Directive 96/9 EC….
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Current Issues in IT and Communications Law in China
Matthew Murphy gives a resumé of the current legal issues in the world’s most exciting economy….
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Does English Law Offer a Solution to the Problem of Spam?
This is the essay which won the SCL Student Essay Prize for Matthew Brewer….
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Big Brother Isn’t Watching You (Everybody Else Is)
The summer viewing of Big Brother enthralled and appalled. Hazel Randall looks at the show going on on your PC with the updates in Adware and Spyware, and other techniques for tracking what private and commercial PC users are doing….
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W(h)ither AI and Law?
At first sight, law and the provision of legal advice seems the ideal ground for the application of artificial intelligence. Alastair Morrison wonders whether the AI promise is at last edging towards realisation and asks serious questions about its current relevance….