This is the text of Professor Chris Reed’s Joint Chairmen’s Report
to the SCL AGM on 24 January 2000….
From the Editor’s Chair
An insert for this issue is a veritable call to arms, lavishly disguised asan invitation to join SCL working groups at the initial launch and planningevent on 27th March. I shall not be tempted by the rhetoric of ‘Ask not whatyou can do for your Society’ but stick to two simple points. First, SCL can…
DRM: SCL Internet Interest Group Response to APIG
The SCL Internet Interest Group has submitted a detailed response to the call from the All Parliamentary Internet Group for views on digital rights management….
Read More… from DRM: SCL Internet Interest Group Response to APIG
Developments in the Protection of DRM
Steve Holmes summarises the most recent cases on DRM and compares the relevant legislation in the UK, the US and Australia….
Digital Libraries
Anne Mizzi says that copyright owners should be considering what steps to take to protect the intellectual property in their books, speeches, audio, video and music in the face of recent moves by the likes of Google and Yahoo! to put a massive body of copyright works on the Internet….
Code clarity comes up from down under
David Flint reviews two recent Australian decisions and reflects on the friction between copyright protection devices and devices restricting free trade and consumer use….
Towards 2000: Bristol Fashion
Bristol was the venue for the latest SCL Information Technology for Lawyers Workshop and Exhibition….
Scottish Group Report: The Commoditisation of Legal Services – The Killer Legal APP?
Johan Hall of NETLEX Legal & Financial Portals (www.netlex.net) reports on a Meeting of the Scottish Group held jointly with theIn-House Lawyers Group of the Law Society of Scotland at Standard Life, Tanfield,Edinburgh, 13 October 1999. E-commerce and new software can revolutionise the way legal services aredelivered. The Desktop Lawyer Service (www.desktoplawyer.net) and the Rapidocsoftware…
Read More… from Scottish Group Report: The Commoditisation of Legal Services – The Killer Legal APP?
Letters to the Editor
From John Sibbald, Chairman Scottish Group Chris Reed and John Irving helpfully described the Proposals for theRe-structuring the Society in the October/November 1999 issue. The ScottishGroup would indeed support their view that the Society is at a watershed.However, the Scottish Group is unable to support the Proposals as the best wayforward for the Society to…
From the Editor’s Chair
Millennium Legal Motorway The lasting mark for the millennium in my immediate neighbourhood is asweeping bridge and revitalised railway track – Black Dog Halt, the redundantstation, is now part of the scenery on the Millennium Cycleway. It seemed to mea fitting way to celebrate the event – something useful and lasting whichwould improve the quality…