This is Robert Waixel’s report of the Privacy Laws & Business 15th Annual International Conference. Robert Waixel is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. He specialises in Computer Law in general and Data Protection Law and practice in particular….
Read Rico Calleja of McDermott, Will & Emery on the Reed Case…
Read More… from Metatags – trade mark infringement and passing off
Dr Gerrie Ebersöhn looks at the things you can do to combat Spam….
Read More… from Anti-spamming Techniques to Combating Unwanted Spam
Domain names continue to be a fertile ground for disputes. Although this article focuses on South African laws, some of Dr Gerrie Ebersöhn’s analysis on UDRP decisions on domain names is of much wider application….
What may turn out to be a milestone in legal thinking about the Internet is currently awaiting decision by the California Supreme Court. It concerns the rights to “sex.com”, the domain name for a Web site offering links to a variety of sex-related online services. David Marchese explains the background to the case, which is not unsurprisingly murky. He feels that it is the ingenuity of those involved in the case that raises wider issues about how the information society and the law interact….
Alastair Morrison responds to the call in an issue of the magazine for articles on whether generic software can do most of the IT work required by the legal profession…
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…
Companies are still unwilling to take ownership of e-mail management despite evidence that misuse of systems is widespread and a serious threat to senior staff and business standing. To prevent classic buck-passing when incidents arise, Ian Davidson, Waterford Technologies’ UK Country Manager, argues the case for fostering a culture of departmental e-mail management….
Joe Reevy analyses data on what visitors actually do when they visit a law firm site – as opposed to what you think they should do….