Today’s cheeky taster from the predictions chocolate assortment is a melange of forecasts from three men with special e-disclosure expertise, but it goes beyond e-disclosure to offer undertones of praline and a strong after-taste of essence of law firm practice. Read the predictions of Andrew Haslam, Mike Taylor and Charles Holloway….
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Richard Graham reviews the likely targets for data protection reform and suggests that it is time to get ready to meet the challenges reform will bring…
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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Advent Sunday has come and gone so perhaps it is not too soon to open the first window of the advent calendar and consume the first morsel. Maybe it is too soon, but I could wait no longer. There are many more to come….
The government’s new Cyber Security Strategy was published on 25 November….
John D. McGonagle considers the structural reforms to the UK banking sector and their importance for IT lawyers…
The ICO has served monetary penalty notices on two more local authorities…
The ECJ has ruled on a reference from Spain about the processing of personal data and the free movement of data and the effect of the Data Protection Directive…
Ofcom has published a document setting out its approach to net neutrality issues….
David Cran and Charlotte Ward give an account of the recent High Court case, Plentyoffish Media Inc. v Plenty More Llp….
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