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…
Intellectual Property
EU Commission Consultation on Enforcement of IP Rights
The EU Commission has launched a consultation that may affect enforcement of rights across the Internet, and beyond….
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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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Predictions 2011: IT Law & IT Trends
Each year we ask experts in a wide variety of fields for their views on the likely developments in the year ahead. This is a selection of the predictions published on the SCL web site that relate to IT law or which focus on the trends in IT which are likely to affect IT lawyers…
Editorial
Future Content My heading suggests that I am about to outline our programme of articles and features for 2011. But, since our aim is always to respond with great agility to the events shaping the legal IT landscape, I cannot say that I know much about what is to come past February. My heading is…
Back to Basics: Exclusion and Limitation of Liability
In the second in our Back to Basics series, Michael Taylor and Matthew Lavy consider the drafting and effects of two types of clause that are almost inevitable features of IT contracts: the exclusion clause and the limitation of liability clause….
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ECJ Ruling on Computer Program Protection
The ECJ has ruled on a reference from a court in the Czech Republic on the question of whether the notion of ‘expression in any form of a computer program’ includes a program’s graphic user interface and on a related issue on the broadcasting of the image of an interface and copyright….
Back to Basics: Dispute Resolution by Expert Determination
Seen with increasing frequency in IT contract disputes, but still too often left in the wings, expert determination has the potential to play a major role in the resolution of IT-related disputes. David Blunt QC and Richard Osborne bring it into the full glare of the spotlight….
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Copyright: Licence Limitations
The Court of Appeal has upheld a finding of copyright infringement for use of photographs on a web site where the web site owner had a limited licence. Susan Barty, Tom Scourfield and Tom Reid report on the case and highlight the dangers inherent in old licences….