Internet Libel and Amazon’s Immunity
A recent Internet libel case highlights the extensive reach of ‘immunity’ for information services providers. Laurence Eastham attempts to pick out the more interesting aspects of a 99-paragraph judgment….
A recent Internet libel case highlights the extensive reach of ‘immunity’ for information services providers. Laurence Eastham attempts to pick out the more interesting aspects of a 99-paragraph judgment….
Rene Summer suggests that we need an action-plan to embrace digitization of creativity in the digital single market and a statement of inviolable digital liberties…
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Carl Gardner writes on the rejected appeal by BT and TalkTalk over the Digital Economy Act’s impact on ISPs. This article is taken from his timely blog post on the always stimulating Head of Legal blog: www.headoflegal.com…
What are the implications of the Opinion of the Advocate General in SAS v WPL? Paul Barton and Emily Parris offer an account of the Advocate General’s reasoning and considered comment on it….
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The Opinion of Advocate General Bot in SAS v World Programming has now been published. In his view, the functionalities of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright. The source code of a program may, if certain conditions are met, be reproduced in order to ensure interoperability with another program….
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Ofcom has published a document setting out its approach to net neutrality issues….
Gary Hodkinson highlights the problems with digital document archiving, explains how the US is leading the way in enforcing new document archiving legislation and why the UK needs to be prepared…
James Holyday reports back on the KM Group’s seminar held at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP (BLP) on 28 September 2011: ‘Up Close and Personal – Delivering the Right Information and Knowledge Management at the Point of Need’….
Use of the Internet and social networking can cause trouble with employers…
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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