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…
International Network for E-crime Prosecutors
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, announced on 28 August that a new Global Prosecutors’ E-Crime Network has been developed….
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SCL Essay Prize 2009
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?’…
Know Your Enemy
Andrew Tibber explores Norwich Pharmacal orders and their increasing relevance in helping claimants identify online wrongdoers….
Analysing Unstructured Data: Electronic Discovery and Computer Limits
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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E-disclosure: Breaching the Language Barrier
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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Open Source: The Affero General Public Licence
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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Convergence Reality: Ofcom Report on Communications
The latest Ofcom UK Communications Market Review 2008 indicates, in a welter of valuable statistics, that a wide range of convergence technologies have shown great increases in popularity….
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Not Every Cloud: Dell Patent Failure
Dell’s attempt to trade mark ‘cloud computing’ has been turned down by the USPTO….
Open Source Software: Top Ten Licences
So many open source licences, so little time. In a twist on Top of the Pops, Bill Jones, Brian Meenagh and Sally Mewies ask which licences matter most and give a brief guide to the essential features of each….