The terms and conditions of use of the new Web browser from Google have been amended following a negative reaction to a first draft that would have caught all rights to users’ content. Laurence Eastham guesses that SCL members will be full of sympathy….
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A recent criminal case leads Laurence Eastham to wonder about what constitutes downloading, and he looks for suggestions from SCL members….
Two organisations join forces ‘to strengthen and clarify the advice given to the end user community relating to best practice for Software Asset Management (SAM) and achieving cost efficient licence compliance’….
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As an SCL member, you can choose to be a passive recipient – receiving the magazine, soaking up web info and attending courses – the target of SCL’s educational role. But these are crucial times for the shape of IT law as it will govern 21st century communications and transactions. If you care about more…
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, announced on 28 August that a new Global Prosecutors’ E-Crime Network has been developed….
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Details of the SCL IT Law Essay Prize for 2009 are now available. The topic is ‘Will Social Networking Services survive only at the expense of privacy?’…
Andrew Tibber explores Norwich Pharmacal orders and their increasing relevance in helping claimants identify online wrongdoers….
Touching on porno hedgehogs and Croatian language recognition systems, Andrew Harbison and Pearse Ryan offer a fascinating insight into the problems associated with analysing unstructured data and the limitations inherent in using computers for electronic discovery. They also explain how the problems are not just of concern to litigators but to data protection lawyers and others too….
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Not all people communicate in English. Julian Uebergang looks at the problems which are set by the use of different languages in documents subject to disclosure….
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Guy Burgess focuses on the Affero General Public Licence as its role expands with the increasing popularity of open source in SaaS environments….
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