The Legal Software Suppliers Association has announced ‘significant progress’ during its latest RTA Portal consultation…
Back-ups, BYOD and FOI risks
Marion Oswald reviews the recent Tribunal decision in Keiller v IC & University of East Anglia, and considers the Freedom of Information Act implications for back-up data and the current ‘Bring Your Own Device’ trend….
BYOD and Software Licensing Challenges
FAST is asking if companies have enforceable policies in place to ensure software compliance and manage the software lifecycle in the BYOD world…
ICO Consults on Strategic Plan
The Information Commissioner’s Office has published a draft plan and begun consultation on its strategy for 2012 to 2015…
Pirate Bay Preliminary Judgment
The High Court has ruled that both the owners and the users of The Pirate Bay infringe UK copyrights….
CPD Online: February / March 2012 Edition of Computers & Law Magazine
Questions arising from the February / March 2012 issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL14 – 1 hour 30 minutes…
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Online Supplement to February / March 2012 issue
These are pdfs of some of the articles that we could not quite fit into the magazine this time around through lack of space or which were, in at least one instance, omitted due to the Editor’s oversight. These articles may be included in a later issue….
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Editorial
SCL Forum Articles Five of this issue’s crop are articles stemming from the SCL Policy Forum held in September. Chaired by Professor Lilian Edwards of the University of Strathclyde and hosted by Mark Turner of Herbert Smith LLP, the event itself was an eye-opener and a brain troubler (in the best possible sense). But we…
CJEU Judgment in SABAM v Netlog
The CJEU rules that the owner of an online social network cannot be obliged to install a general filtering system in order to prevent the unlawful use of protected works…
Human Rights Guidance for ICT Sector from EU Commission
The EU Commission is to undertake a project to develop sector-specific guidance on the corporate responsibility to respect human rights and the ICT sector is one of the selected sectors….
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