In an article arising from the SCL Policy Forum 2010, Jeremy Newton looks back at Richard Susskind’s ground-breaking book and examines the extent to which the paradigm has in fact shifted…
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This encourages a focus not only on “What is the problem” but “I can see there is a problem how can we fix it”…. It is for these reasons that we have established an In-House Group in SCL….
David Chaplin reports on the Annual IT Contracts Update given by Richard Stephens…
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Two councils face monetary penalties for unencrypted laptop theft…
In a reflection of his contribution to the SCL Forum 2010, Nico van Eijk puts network neutrality in context, predicts the future flow of debate on the topic and makes a series of telling observations on network neutrality dilemmas….
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The PCC has ruled on the first complaint about republication of Tweets by mainstream media…
Judge Birss has handed down his judgment in the volume file-sharing litigation brought by Media CAT…
In this article, inspired by the SCL Forum 2010, Chris Reed looks at the basics of legal protection of works and questions whether the focus on the right to copy remains appropriate in radically changed circumstances….
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Contrary to other types of open content licences, Creative Commons licences are intended to be translated and adapted to the laws of many jurisdictions. Local or regional peculiarities of the copyright regime can sometimes require an adaptation to the licences that would disrupt their worldwide similarity. In another article arising from the SCL Forum 2010, Lucie Guibault focuses on one of these peculiarities: the European sui generis database right….
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I thought our libel laws were mad when it came to jurisdictional issues, providing one of the few points of growth in a downtrodden economy. The French are in danger of beating us….