Watching Cloud Contracts Take Shape
Simon Bradshaw, Christopher Millard and Ian Walden recount the results of a survey into cloud computing contracts and examine a few of the issues brought into focus by the survey…
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
Sharing of Costs – Draft Order Published
The Online Infringement of Copyright (Initial Obligations) (Sharing of Costs) Order 2011 has been published in draft form…
Accommodating Change in Public Sector Contracts
Barry Jennings focuses on change in the public procurement sector, what that means for lawyers and the potential for procurement regulation challenge…
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Rights in Databases: Where are We Now?
David Cran and Georgia Warren look at database protection in light of the Football DataCo/Brittens Pools case and consider the general position…
Unravelling the Loose Threads of a Failed Project
Simon Croall QC and Anna Cook give an account of the Technology and Construction Court case De Beers UK v Atos Origin…
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Negotiating with Goliath
Paul Berwin and Claire Armer cover the key issues to focus on when working on an IT/IP contract between your client and a massive corporate…
Predictions – Doggy Bag
You thought that the predictions banquet had finished; we have already had the late lingering liqueurs. But there is still more fare available, making my banquet theme creak all too obviously. These predictions come jointly from Matthew Davis and Bill Onowusah and from Paul Heritage-Redpath. They are much too good to be binned as leftovers and I am indebted to Matthew for the ‘doggy bag’ suggestion….
Slippery Slope
Does the ski resort have something to teach us about IT contract formation?…
The Open Source Software Licence: the UK Perspective on Jacobsen v Katzer
At the SCL Policy Forum 2010, Clive Thorne spoke on the US judgment in Jacobsen v Katzer and looked at how this case may have been decided if heard by the UK courts. This article from Clive Thorne and Nicole Mellors reflects that presentation….
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Data Sharing Code of Practice: SCL Response
The Society for Computers and Law Privacy and Data Protection Group has submitted a stimulating and constructive response to the ICO consultation on the data sharing code of practice…