Delia Venables is a computer consultant for lawyers and is alsoeditor of the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers and other Internet publicationsand co-author, with Nick Holmes, of the Butterworths book Researching the LegalWeb. She can be contacted on 01273 472424 or delia@venables.co.ukand her web pages are at http://www.venables.co.uk This article is the second of an occasional…
Andrew Levison is a partner of Grant Thornton and Head ofIS Consultancy and can be contacted at andrew.w.levison@gtuk.com.A version of this article first appeared in Worldlaw Business magazine. ‘When will our firm be dragged into the 20th Century?’… During the lastdecade I have often heard lawyers comment on how frustrated they are with thedevelopment of…
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Harry Small is the new Joint Chairman (Law) of SCL….
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An insert for this issue is a veritable call to arms, lavishly disguised asan invitation to join SCL working groups at the initial launch and planningevent on 27th March. I shall not be tempted by the rhetoric of ‘Ask not whatyou can do for your Society’ but stick to two simple points. First, SCL can…
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The SCL Internet Interest Group has submitted a detailed response to the call from the All Parliamentary Internet Group for views on digital rights management….
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Stuart Dutson is a Litigation and Arbitration Solicitor at Linklaters – Linklaters & Alliance, London….
Steve Holmes summarises the most recent cases on DRM and compares the relevant legislation in the UK, the US and Australia….
This is an edited version of a talk given by A M Susman to the Information Technology and Courts Committee on 6 December 1999….
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Anne Mizzi says that copyright owners should be considering what steps to take to protect the intellectual property in their books, speeches, audio, video and music in the face of recent moves by the likes of Google and Yahoo! to put a massive body of copyright works on the Internet….