It Will Never Happen to Me
Reflections on the recent Kroll Ontrack survey and the lack of fear of sanctions among the unprepared…
Intellectual Property
File-sharing: ‘Allowing Infringement’ and Default Judgment
In a volume litigation claim in the Patents County Court, where ACS Law were acting for the claimants, applications for default judgment against unnamed defendants have been refused. Light, and doubt, have been cast on the basis of claim insofar as it rests on ‘allowing infringement’….
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Football Dataco Ltd v Yahoo: Court of Appeal Judgment Published
The Court of Appeal has published the latest in a long line of judgments that affect the database right and copyright in football fixtures etc…
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L’Oréal v eBay: Advocate General’s Opinion
Advocate General Jääskinen considers that eBay is generally not liable for trade mark infringements committed by its users on its electronic marketplace. However, if eBay has been notified of the infringing use of a trade mark, and the same user continues or repeats that infringement, eBay may be held liable for it….
Iain G Mitchell QC appointed to Leading Role at CCBE
Scottish Society for Computers and Law Chairman, Iain G. Mitchell QC has been appointed as the next United Kingdom representative on the IT Committee of the Bars and Law Societies of Europe for a period of three years….
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News Monitoring and Copyright: NLA v Meltwater
Mark Taylor and Tom Wood give an account of a recent High Court case that ruled that users of online news monitoring services may require a copyright licence…
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Shaping the Future of European Data Protection
Eduardo Ustaran analyses the EU Commission’s newly published strategy document which contains its proposals for strengthening EU data protection rules….
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Searching Google
For years web searching and Google have been synonymous – now the searching is to be through Google’s own data. What intrigues me about the EU Commission’s investigation is how they are going to find the relevant material….
Predictions 2011 – First Course
A substantial, warming and slightly spicy soup as a first course in the predictions banquet – predictions from Chris Marsden, John Yates, Peter Sommer, Lilian Edwards, Mike Taylor, Jan Durant, Stephen Mason, Shireen Smith, Bryan King, Joe Reevy and Nick Holmes. Don’t forget the amuse bouche posted on 30 November with the predictions from Kit Burden and Robert Buchan…
The Downselection Dilemma
Kit Burden offers an intensely practical guide to the downselection process and the lawyer’s role in it…