Thoughts on the Tech Law Futures Conference
Here are some brief reflections on a very positive experience…
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
The Ins and Outs of Geoblocking
Graham Smith gave a primer on Internet jurisdiction at the Tech Law Futures Conference in November. His slides for that presentation are available below. This article reflects one of the issues he covered in that presentation…
Ghost of Tech Law Past
Laurence Eastham gave one of the presentations at the SCL Tech Law Futures Conference on 10 November. This is his attempt to reflect that talk…
SCL Event Report: Issues in Global Services Transactions
Dan Coen reports on the Issues in Global Services Transactions event held on 11 October 2016 and hosted by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP….
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CMA Launches Investigation into Online Gambling
The Competition and Markets Authority has announced it is investigating whether online gambling firms are treating their customers fairly…
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Is the ICO Quietly Implementing the GDPR?
Laurence Eastham applauds the new ICO Code of Practice and wonders if the ICO is flying under the Brexit radar….
SCL Event Report: Negotiating and Litigation of Technology Contracts – Some Common Challenges
Darren Grayson Chng reports on the initial meeting of SCL Singapore. His article aims to provide a brief overview of the topics discussed, while going a little further into some of the intriguing points raised by the Chair and the panellists which are of universal application….
Editorial
Case reports and clarity This issue of the magazine is dominated by case reports. Since recent issues have been overflowing, it was an opportunity to catch up with developments in the courts, especially judgments from the Court of Justice of the European Union. Since I had the pleasure of trawling through many of these judgments,…
Blocking Injunctions and Trade Marks: Court of Appeal Cartier Judgment
In Cartier International AG & Ors v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 658 five English ISPs (Sky, BT, EE, TalkTalk and Virgin) were appealing against orders made in late 2014 which required them to block or attempt to block access by their customers to certain target websites which were advertising and selling counterfeit copies…
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Cases Catch-up
This is a selection of cases that have been covered on the SCL website but have not been dealt with elsewhere in this issue or previous issues. Fuller coverage and links to full judgments are available on the SCL website as are reports of a handful of other 2016 cases which we have not found space to cover in print…