Not Every Cloud: Dell Patent Failure
Dell’s attempt to trade mark ‘cloud computing’ has been turned down by the USPTO….
Innovation
Autonomous Robots and the Law
Dr Fernando Barrio considers the problems which will be posed for the law by the development of autonomous robots and, by way of an example, looks more closely at how they may be treated under the law on sexual offences….
When Worlds Collide – Virtual Property and Real World Legal Systems
This piece by Stephan Buck won the SCL Essay prize 2008. It is Stephan’s aproach to the official essay title ‘Virtual Properties and Virtual Economies: How should activities with economic consequences in virtual worlds like ‘Sec-ond Life’ and ‘Everquest’ be dealt with by real-world legal systems?’…
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EDPS and the ePrivacy Directive Review
The European Data Protection Supervisor has adopted an Opinion on the European Commission’s proposal for amendment of the ePrivacy Directive….
Virtually Unlicensed: The Problem with Virtualisation
‘Virtualisation’ has been growing in popularity, particularly since the end of 2006, as a form of infrastructure technology that can be used to consolidate the hardware resources of a business. But what exactly is it? Put simply, ‘virtualisation’ means either ‘partitioning’ a single physical resource (such as a server, operating system or application) to make…
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Remote Gambling – Lessons from a Small Jurisdiction
Claire Milne, based in the Isle of Man, shares her experience of the interface between IT law and remote gaming….
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Conference Report: Web 2.0 Internet Law in the 21st Century
A report from Carl Davies on the Society for Computers and Law 7th Annual Conference, held at St Anne’s College, Oxford on 22 and 23 June 2007.
The Conference sessions and related online CPD test are available on the SCL Web site….
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The Next Ten Years
This is an edited transcript of the 2006 SCL Lecture given by Professor Richard Susskind OBE, which has created enormous interest. This version covers only four of the six headings covered in the Lecture itself….
The Future is Now
Laurence Eastham takes a sideways look forward….
IT SECURITY – What Every Technology Lawyer Needs to Know about IT Security
Kit Burden explains why IT security matters to technology lawyers or at least should matter. This article is based on his presentation to the Law Society of Scotland/SSCL Conference earlier this year…
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