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Lecture Review & Podcast: “Challenges to Legal Systems in a Digital World”

March 7, 2007

Richard Harrison reviews Sir Hugh Laddie’s SCL Lecture 2007, given on 5 March 2007….

Spammer Damages

March 6, 2007

Another successful action has been brought against an alleged spammer – this time in Scotland and this time with a more substantial claim….

February 2007 / March 2007 Online Course

February 27, 2007

The course for the February 2007/March 2007 issue of Computers & Law magazine. (Course code HW/SFCL14 – 1 hour)…

Government Response to Software Patents Petition

February 27, 2007

The Government response to an online petition asking that the Prime Minister ‘make software patents clearly unenforcible(sic)’ makes for interesting reading….

Urgent Request for Comments

February 27, 2007

SCL is to respond to the DCA consultation on the Draft Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2007. Do you want to inform those comments?…

OGC Survey The great success of the SCL Conference in Oxford in November was that it created an increased dialogue between the public sector and the private sector. Of course from the very beginning the behaviour of occasional adversaries was exemplary but so it was in the age of chivalry – when there was…

ITT for New Research Project

February 25, 2007

The JISC Legal Information Service is inviting tenders for a research project, the aim of which is to produce guidelines as to the use of IP rights in UK higher and further education institutions….

Software Patents: Another fine mess…

February 23, 2007

Nick Reeve argues that the failure to resolve issues relating to software patents clearly and sensibly is likely to have a negative effect on the appeal of the UK as a centre for software development….