Plane Squatting
Declan Cushley and Giles Parsons summarise a recent Nominet ruling on the domain name emirates.co.uk and emphasise the lessons that emerge….
Litigation & DR
Thames Valley Group Meeting Report: Cloud Computing Contracts
Neil Brown reports on Professor Christopher Millard’s presentation at the SCL Thames Valley Group meeting of 16 February…
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Editorial
SCL Forum For the third year in a row, the Feb/March issue of the magazine is dominated by contributions reflecting the proceedings at the SCL Annual Policy Forum. The Forum is always a special event that provokes thought and encourages its participants to edge out of their comfort zone. This year’s was no different in…
Back to Basics: Service Levels and Service Credits
In our latest article in the Back to Basics series, Roger Bickerstaff and Anna Cook examine the service level and service credit regimes. They highlight the related traps for the unwary and focus on useful practical approaches when establishing the regimes in a commercial IT contract….
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Voice Recognition and Real Recommendations
You cannot beat word-of-mouth recommendation, but the electronic equivalent comes a close second. Let’s get your recommendations on site….
Towards ‘Open Lawyering’ – Revisiting The Future of Law
In an article arising from the SCL Policy Forum 2010, Jeremy Newton looks back at Richard Susskind’s ground-breaking book and examines the extent to which the paradigm has in fact shifted…
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Paved with Good Intentions
Andrew Charlesworth focuses on universities, freedom of information and open research – and reveals that combining these promising ingredients results in an unpalatable and potentially dangerous cocktail…
About Network Neutrality 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0
In a reflection of his contribution to the SCL Forum 2010, Nico van Eijk puts network neutrality in context, predicts the future flow of debate on the topic and makes a series of telling observations on network neutrality dilemmas….
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Media CAT File-sharing Judgment
Judge Birss has handed down his judgment in the volume file-sharing litigation brought by Media CAT…
Open Culture – Rethinking the Legal Framework
In this article, inspired by the SCL Forum 2010, Chris Reed looks at the basics of legal protection of works and questions whether the focus on the right to copy remains appropriate in radically changed circumstances….
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