Weekly Techlaw News Round-Up
A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site…
Intellectual Property
CJEU: web-based email not an electronic communications service
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in Google LLC v Bundesrepublik Deutschland Case C-193/18 that web-based email is not an electronic communications service….
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Techsplainer: 5G (and a brief history of 1 to 4)
In our regular column explaining the terminology behind the tech, the SCL’s resident geek, Simon Forrester, recounts the technological history leading to 5G….
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Smart Contracts: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Part 1: The Good (and a short history)
In this two part article Rachel Goss take a fresh look at the perennial question of whether smart contracts can ever work under English contract law by looking at the good, the bad and the ugly aspects associated with them. In Part 1 she provides a short history of smart contracts and a look at the good….
SCL Adjudication Procedure: Update and Launch Plans
A new adjudication procedure for the resolution of technology disputes in England & Wales…
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Dispute resolution in the era of big data and AI
Charlie Morgan and Rebecca Read give a brief overview of what artificial intelligence (AI) means, assess how process automation and machine learning is having an impact on dispute resolution and what things might look like in future….
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Copyright and E-commerce legislation published in Official Journal
Last week significant EU legislation affecting copyright and consumer law was published in the Official Journal….
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Cyber-Attacks (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2019
Regulations implement a new sanctions regime for cyber-attacks…
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Tackling misinformation and disinformation online: thoughts on the Online Harms White Paper
The text of a speech presented by Ashley Hurst, Chair of the SCL Media Group, to the Westminster Media Forum policy conference on why he thinks the Online Harms White Paper and the duty of care is not the answer to online disinformation and why the way forward should be focused on technology and education…
Do social network providers require (further?) regulation? #1
The winner of the inaugural SCL Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize 2019 Winner, Robert Lewis, takes a wide-ranging look at the disparities between the laws regulating social networks and those regulating its users and the traditional media…
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