The EU Commission is to step up the pressure on the UK with a further stage in legal action over privacy and personal data protection…
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Will you be a Winner or a Loser?
Mike Henley asks if your firm and its people can deliver revolutionary change….
Cheryl Cole, Peter Mandelson and Kindle
The naked truth is that enforcement and adaptation have to go hand-in-hand….
Online Music Retailing: Towards Borderless Business?
Winston Maxwell, Suzanne Rab and Daphne Monnoyeur report and comment on a meeting of the Online Roundtable on Music where participants agreed on a common roadmap…
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AdWords: the Advocate General’s Opinion
Susan Barty, Isabel Davies and Tom Scourfield report on the latest development in Google France and ors v Louis Vuitton Malletier and ors – the Advocate General’s Opinion published on 22 September 2009….
ECJ Supports Prohibition on Cross-border Gambling
Craig Pouncey and Lode Van Den Hende summarise the recent case of Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (CA/LPFP) and Bwin International Limited v Departamento de Jogos da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (Case 42/07), where the European Court of Justice upheld Portugal’s legislative restrictions on online gaming based in other EU jurisdictions, apparently endorsing a lottery monopoly there. The judgment is likely to have substantial implications for online gaming across the EU….
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Editorial
SCL Conference I was at Bath for the Conference only on the Friday – so for only one day of the two-day SCL Conference. But, although I missed Saturday’s proceedings, I feel confident in saying that it was a great success. I am bolstered in that view by what I have heard of the formal…
Cloud Computing: Risks and Questions
Adam Bosnian gives readers a run-down on the risk and control aspects that cloud computing poses – and what important questions companies need to ask their cloud service provider….
Disclosure Duties and Penalties
In Earles v Barclays Bank plc [2009] EWHC 1 (Mercantile) HHJ Simon Brown QC, a judge with a well deserved reputation for knowing about e-disclosure, has made a number of comments on the failures of the Bank in respect of disclosure and includes considerable criticism of the legal team representing them. The relatively complex claim…
CPD Online: October / November 2009 Edition of Computers & Law Magazine
Questions arising from the October / November issue of Computers & Law. SCL Online CPD Scheme – Course code HW/SFCL42 – 1 hour 30 minutes…
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