News Snippets
An alert for readers to just some of the news items that were covered on the SCL Web site in March and April….
Telecoms & the Internet
The Next Ten Years
This is an edited transcript of the 2006 SCL Lecture given by Professor Richard Susskind OBE, which has created enormous interest. This version covers only four of the six headings covered in the Lecture itself….
Predictions 2006: A Miscellany
This is a selection of the predictions on the SCL Web site made by leading legal IT experts and IT lawyers….
Trade Marks, Search Engines and Fair Play
The Internet has opened up new channels of communication and ways of doing business. It has generated new possibilities for businesses to compete effectively in the open market. It has also created new ways in which companies (and individuals) can engage in commercial mischief such as exploiting the property rights of others without authorisation. In…
Generic v Specific Software
The more I researched and considered the issue, the more convinced I became (as I thought I would) that indeed considerably more can be done with generic products than most firms probably appreciate and that this is going to increase steadily over the coming years. This is a debate whose time has truly come and…
Editorial
Claim CPD for reading Computers & Law From February next year you will be able to transform the time you spend reading Computers & Law into CPD. This new member benefit will be available with the launch of the revamped SCL Web site, scheduled for release at the end of January 2006. The CPD scheme…
Taxation Incentives for IT Companies in Ireland
Philip Nolan and Suzanne Carter review the taxation attractions for IT companies in Ireland….
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Low Down Dirty Clicks
Mike Conradi and Travers Symons look at the problems with click fraud, and ask when a ‘click’ is not a ‘click’….
Cybercrime and the UK
Anne Flanagan looks at international standards on cybercrime compliance and asks what UK laws need to change….
Human Rights in the Digital Age
Privacy and anonymity are concepts that appear to be rapidly fading away into insignificance as networked communications become ubiquitous. This is an issue that is raised, together with the development of human rights, in the recent text Mapping the Global Future A Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project NIC 2004-13, December 2004). A…