How To Make Bad Law
Professor Chris Reed draws some lessons from the experience of law-making in the computing and communications sector. He suggests that a focus on technical precision has given us some pretty bad law….
Publishing & social media
Criminal Prosecution and Online Copyright Infringement
Mikko Manner considers the utilization of criminal prosecution against copyright infringement in the context of online distribution services by specific reference to The Pirate Bay…
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Lord Mandelson waters down controversial Clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill
UK government publishes amendments to Digital Economy Bill that significantly water down the powers proposed to be given to the Secretary of State to enable amendment of UK copyright law….
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Do We Need a Constitution for the Information Age?
Mark Turner examines the defects in existing systems for agreeing international obligations of the kind that are vital to the flowering of the information age. The disintermediation of government leads him to suggest a constitutional convention for the information age….
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Data Protection: The New Technical and Political Environment
Ian Brown paints a picture of a rapidly changing data protection landscape, with the dangers arising from technical revolutions and political adjustments in the foreground…
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Privacy Locks
There’s nothing like a trip to the DIY store to bring home the importance of privacy, or lack of it….
Predictions 2010: Technology & Strategy for Lawyers
We asked experts in various fields for their take on likely developments for 2010 and beyond. The predictions are published on the SCL Web site. This is a selection of predictions relating to law firm management, legal software, strategy and the like….
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Predictions 2010: IT Law & IT Trends
We asked experts in various fields for their take on likely developments for 2010 and beyond. The predictions are published on the SCL Web site. This is a selection of predictions relating to IT law and the changes that are likely to affect the practice of it….
Predictions 2010: Ninth Post
Laurence Eastham, Editor of Computers & Law and of this site, provides his predictions for 2010 and beyond.
Check back regularly for more predictions – they will be posted in batches throughout December….
Stuck in ‘Neutral’? Google, AdWords and the E-Commerce Directive Immunities
Lilian Edwards considers the foundation of the ‘immunity’ granted to information society service providers by the E-Commerce Directive. She asks whether the emphasis laid in the recent Attorney General’s Opinion in ‘the AdWords case’ on neutrality as a qualification for that immunity is justified….
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