E-mails: Documents or Property?
Susan McGhie Sang takes a detailed look at Fairstar v Adkins, and where the Court of Appeal judgment leaves us on e-mails and property rights in them….
Intellectual Property
Predictions 2014: Batch 4
These are too late for our forthcoming magazine compilation, but it is never too late for the web site when the contributions have much of interest. This batch includes predictions from Simon Deane-Johns, Lilian Edwards, Paul Lambert and Pearse Ryan….
CPD Online: SCL Foundations of IT Law: Module 1
These are questions arising from the Podcast: SCL Foundations of IT Law Programme: Module 1 – Software Licensing Law. Course code HW/SFCL:OC11 – CPD: 2 hours….
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Domain Names: Community Service
Jane Seager examines how ICANN’s new gTLD program defines and deals with communities…
Predictions 2014: Batch 3
Another five predictions, covering law and IT for lawyers with great perception. In alphabetical order, we have predictions from Mark Crichard, Joanna Goodman, Dr Monica Horten, Jane Seager and Graham Smith….
AG’s Opinion: Data Retention Directive Incompatible with Human Rights
According to the Advocate General, Mr Cruz Villalón, the Data Retention Directive is incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights. He proposes that the effects of the finding of invalidity should be suspended in order to enable the EU legislature to adopt, within a reasonable period, the measures necessary to remedy the invalidity found to exist so this is very far from an undermining of the data retention regime….
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It’s Raining NDAs
Paul Klinger and Rachel Burnett discuss the content and procedures involved in effective non-disclosure agreements….
Data Protection Proliferation in the Asia-Pacific
Janine Regan contemplates the rising importance attached to data protection in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region…
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Give Me Back My Bitcoins
If your Bitcoin fortune has gone missing, Michael Taylor has an analysis of your legal right of redress…
SCL Event Report: Software Licensing Law: Foundations of IT Law – Module 1
Mike Reed reports on the first in the ground-breaking series of modules in SCL’s Foundation of IT Law, an event which took place at Wragge & Co on 25 November 2013…
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