Bad Bots
If you count software bots as robots then robots are already being used to deceive and exploit people who mistake them for humans. Miranda Mowbray enlightens you….
Intellectual Property
Data Protection: Facebook and the Right Kind of Establishment
Julia Hörnle looks at a German case concerning the application of EU data protection law to foreign service providers and similar questions arising elsewhere in the EU, all of which raise issues about what amounts to the right kind of establishment…
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Under the Surface
Paul Mew asks how the new Microsoft tablet compares to Apple’s business–world dominating iPad…
Security for Sub-licensees?
Rod J. Cowper, Ben Goodger and Ellen Hughes-Jones ask if there is new security for sub-licensees. The question arises following a High Court ruling that a sub-licence for the use of software survived the termination of the head licence under which it was granted. This article appears in the April edition of In-House Lawyer. It is a more detailed analysis than the article from the same authors, Sub-licence Survivor, which appeared on this site last month….
Pirate Bay and Human Rights
To no great surprise, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that The Pirate Bay co-founders’ criminal conviction for assisting copyright infringement on the Internet was justified…
Advergames – Play With Caution
advergame (noun): an electronic game that promotes a particular brand, product, or marketing message by integrating it into the game. Advergames are subject to the supervision of the Advertising Standards Authority. Sacha Wilson reviews some of the ASA adjudications and clarifies the rules of this particular game….
Big Data, Open Data, Midata… It’s All Linked
Simon Deane-Johns joins up the dots to show the full picture concerning the hottest data-related issues…
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CJEU Highlights Catch with TVCatchup
According to the latest judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union, television broadcasters may prohibit the retransmission of their programmes by another company via the Internet as such retransmission constitutes, under certain conditions, ‘a communication to the public’ of works which must be authorised by their author…
An Introduction to Legal Project Management
Antony Smith explains what LPM is and the part IT can play in its effective implementation…
Microsoft Fined by EU Commission
The EU Commission has fined Microsoft for its non-compliance with browser choice commitments…