The Article 29 Working Party has published an open letter that attacks the latest form of the agreement between the European Commission and the United States of America on PNR….
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Regulation of Video-on-demand Services: the ‘Sun Video‘ Appeal
David Lewis examines a recent landmark development in the regulation of video on demand services and predicts that it may be the first of many……
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Privacy Protection: Seed Control?
Rosalind English reports on a case which involved an innovative approach to protection of privacy, with the court venturing into an area often characterised as beyond court control…
Online Supplement to December/January issue
Pdfs of some of the articles that we could not quite fit into the magazine this time around…
Digital Ubiquity
The stratospheric increase in the use of social and mobile media has important implications for e-disclosure practitioners, as Greg Wildisen makes clear…
New EU Communication on E-commerce and Online Services Published
The EU Commission has published an important new strategy document ‘A coherent framework to build trust in the Digital single market for e-commerce and online services’…
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Creative Powers
Now anybody with a bit of knowledge can build their own website in English – and not using code….
Domain Names: ICANN Sticks to gTLD Launch Timetable
ICANN has confirmed the 12 January launch, released further details on the gTLD regime and made a number of supporting documents available…
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Can Semantic Web Technology Help Implement a Right to Be Forgotten?
Kieron O’Hara examines the right to be forgotten – what it means and whether the technology is available to implement the right. This is the first in a series of articles arising from the SCL’s 6th Annual Policy Forum held in September 2011….
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Common European Sales Law – Issues for IT Lawyers
On 11 October 2011, the European Commission published a detailed proposal for a regulation on a Common European Sales Law (CESL). Guy Wilmot and David Webster consider the Commission’s proposals and explain what the CESL is before explaining some of the issues for technology and IT lawyers in particular….
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