What Every Technology Lawyer Needs to Know about IT Security
Kit Burden explains why IT security matters, or should matter….
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Privacy & Data Protection
Legal Aspects of Information Security Management
In internet commerce[1] where technology risks such as systems failure or attacks are particularly accentuated and the “risk turnaround time” is much faster, the need to design and develop a proactive and structured legal protection regime has become a corporate imperative. Zaid Hamzah points the way forward in designing and developing a legal risk management system in Internet commerce at both the strategic as well as the operational level that would protect enterprises from legal problems that might flow from information security risks….
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Computers and the Law – New principles or the same principles in a different context?
Professor Ewan McKendrick gave a lecture to the SCL London Group on 22 September covering certain developments in contract law as they affect IT lawyers. This is the edited text of that lecture. SCL is grateful to him, both for granting permission for the text to be made available on the Web site and for the considerable work involved in converting that text into this form. SCL is also grateful to Wordwave for its transcription of the lecture….
Transferring data through model contracts: original clauses v alternative clauses
Eduardo Ustaran considers the required safeguards in contracts concerning transfer of data abroad…
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Challenges to Database Information Retrieval – Do We Need a World Information Treaty and Tribunal?
Catherine Colston looks at the problems with database information retrieval and suggests a way forward….
IT and the London Civil Courts
This article is an edited version of Lord Justice Brooke’s lecture to the London Solicitors Litigation Association….
Specific software, correction of errors and source codes: tribulations of a Frenchman in an offshore software development paradise
This article from Marc-Antoine Ledieu delves into the confusion which can arise whenever, and wherever, software is developed….
Trade Marks, Search Engines and Fair Play
Maureen Daly presents an analysis of the differing approaches in the US and various European jurisdictions to allegations of trade mark infringement and unfair competition by search engines…
EDMS Software: Winning Legal Business
Egami-Legal Litigation Support from DPA-Egami was a finalist for the 1998 SCL Award….
Microsoft: Victim or Villain?
Microsoft’s battles with anti-trust regulators will continue even if Microsoft win their appeal in April 1998 and set aside the interiminjunction awarded in December 1997….