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….
Privacy & Data Protection
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….
.dash
The advent of seven new top level domains has created an unprecedented dash for registration, as examined here by Jonathan Ebsworth and Giles Bennett….
Internet Privacy: Inroads into Assumptions
In February the case of Totalise Plc v Motley Fool Limited went almost without mention. Joanne Ashley describes why she finds this surprising and briefly considers the implications of this case….
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…
Legal Aspects of the Information Society
Brigitte Zammitt reviews Ian Lloyd’s book, Legal Aspects of the Information Society (Butterworths), and reviews the topics covered in the book….
Legal e-commerce
Neil Cameron explains what e-commerce is and why you need to plan to take account of it….