The Information Commissioner has served the first monetary penalty notices for serious data protection breaches…
Massive Damages Award in Oracle/SAP US Litigation
A US court has awarded enormous damages in a dispute over a breach of IP rights…
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The Twitter Bomb Joke and the Big Issues
Most of what I have seen about the bomb tweet exaggerates its importance, and misses a couple of crucial points that matter more…
Jurisdiction: Emission Theory and Database Right
A High Court case has clarified some of the jurisdiction issues relating to online infringement…
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Future Focus
T’is the season to be … predicting (it’s far too early to be jolly) and looking forward. And perhaps an even better season for putting the world to rights…
Technology and the SCL Community
Our ambition in SCL as a society is to embrace the wider aspects of technology as it applies to the law…
The Final ACTA?
The probable final text of the international trade agreement ACTA has been published online. It has importance for the enforcement of IP rights and especially for IPR enforcement in the digital environment….
Navigating the Cloud: Solutions for a Cloud Computing Age
Dervish Tayyip identifies the key problems for cloud computing from an IT lawyer’s perspective and suggests a number of attainable solutions. These are his personal views and not those of Microsoft for whom he is head of UK Legal….
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Public Sector Procurement – A Storm is Threatening
John Yates explains how to adapt and survive in the new, harsher environment facing public sector procurement…
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Seminar Report: Reusing Old Bunkers
David Chaplin reports on the SCL Seminar ‘Legal Issues in Financial Services IT Provision’ held at Bird & Bird’s offices on 9 November….