Ewan McIntyre is head of the IP/IT Group of Edinburgh law firm Robson McLean WS
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From the Editor’s Chair
The British are famous for their failure to applaud success, or more accurately for their tendency to applaud success only briefly and then pick holes in the successful for ever after. I have always thought that was a rather healthy national characteristic but have been amused to see it in action in recent weeks, but…
Working Groups
Tackling the Issues that Matter…
DocuPen R700 Portable Scanner
Paul Motion scans on the move and tests the latest in portable scanning….
Building the Links between Law
SCL’s ‘Free the Law’ campaign has proven the need for better access to law….
Achievement and Promise
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….
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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….