DEA 2010: Wi-fi Liability
Mark Weston explores the legal problems associated with wi-fi Internet access and considers the effect of the Digital Economy Act 2010…
Intellectual Property
All Quiet on the Courtroom Front
David Chaplin reports on the War Stories: Best Practice in IT Dispute Resolution Seminar held on 24 June…
Google Wins in Viacom/YouTube Dispute
The judge in the long-running dispute between Viacom and You Tube (now a Google company) has granted Google’s application for summary judgment…
New gTLDs: Shaking up the Internet
The pool for domain names may well increase dramatically by late 2011 with the introduction of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) and a variety of different generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). These developments will undoubtedly drive changes in businesses’ online reputation strategy and management. Nick Wenban-Smith explains the proposed new landscape and outlines how businesses can prepare for this imminent arrival of new domains….
Just in Case
What do you wish was the subject of a major judgment, stripping IT law of some of its uncertainties?…
Computer Fraud in Ireland
Pearse Ryan and Andrew Harbison discuss the law on computer fraud in Ireland and the law of dishonesty associated with it. The article casts considerable light on the practical realities of computer crime….
SCL Conference: Supporting the Foundations
SCL’s Annual Conference on 15 and 16 October will be focusing on software. It will consider many of the issues of central concern to IT lawyers. Laurence Eastham reviews the Conference programme….
IT Lawyers’ Cases in Brief
Laurence Eastham summarises some of the judgments which have been published in the last two months and which are of interest to IT lawyers….
Editorial
This issue has two striking features: the preponderance of case reports and analysis and the contributions to policy formation from SCL represented by the cost-sharing response and the first Society for Computers and Law Policy Document. Cases What does it say about IT law that we can have no less than six articles devoted to…
Mobile Madness
With a wave of iPad mania sweeping through law firms, Martin Telfer looks at the explosion of interest in the latest mobile solutions and what it means for IT professionals in law firms….