‘Browse wrap’ Licence? Don’t mind if I do.
Whilst there are parallels to be drawn between UK and US law, you can get into very hot water if you rely too heavily on one as an exposition of the other….
Privacy & Data Protection
Will Online Gambling Become Lawful?
Julia Whybrow and Professor Chris Reed look at the Budd Report and consider its implications….
WI Fi Woes
Robin Bynoe reviews the risks inherent in the use of wi-fi and the allocation of liability when things go wrong….
Database Right: Publishers’ Delight
Ian Jeffrey thinks that database right is proving to be even more important than predicted. This article looks at the scope of the right and applies it in a number of commonly occurring scenarios….
To Disclose or Not to Disclose: That is the Question
The recent case of Totalise v Motley Fool, decided on 19 February 2001, dealt with disclosure in the context of a Web site….
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Implied Terms in Computer Contracts
Michael Douglas QC and Ben Pilling consider what terms are of concern, or likely to be applied into, contracts relating to IT….
Framework Agreements – A Cure for All Ills?
This article from Kit Burden and Heidi Kwei of Barlow Lyde & Gilbert comments on the factors which parties need to consider when considering the use of a framework agreement for an IT project or a series of projects….
Information Technology and Human Rights: An International Perspective
The following article is developed from a lecture given by W.S. Gale QC to the Scottish Society for Computers & Law at the joint meeting with the Faculty of Advocates IT Group in Edinburgh….
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Distance Selling Regulations
This article is an edited version of Susan Singleton’s presentation to the London Group meeting on 30 April….
Letter to the Editor
There are a number of significant omissions in AmandaKearsley’s article The Internet,Paedophilia and the ISP (C&L Vol 12 issue 1; April/May 2001) so that theresult is somewhat unbalanced. 1. Charges involving paedophiliac material are nearly always prosecutedunder the Protection of Children Act 1978, not the Obscene Publications Act uponwhich Ms Kearsley concentrates. This applied in…