Andrew Murray explains how volume litigation against alleged file-sharers works and why he disapproves of its use at the present time. This is one of a series of articles arising from last year’s SCL Policy Forum….
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Jenny Skilbeck covers recent developments affecting the Remedies Directive, the limitation period and variations to existing contract,s including the important new case of Uniplex….
Nick Holmes describes the origins of a dream and the steps taken to turn it into a reality…
In a thought-provoking piece arising from last year’s SCL Policy Forum, Graham Smith challenges some assumptions, queries a number of assertions and analyses the legislative approach that gives us most of our IT law. But he offers little hope for a future of better legislation in the field….
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Duncan McCall QC and George Woods from 4 Pump Court give an introductory note on the judgment….
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Professor Chris Reed draws some lessons from the experience of law-making in the computing and communications sector. He suggests that a focus on technical precision has given us some pretty bad law….
Mikko Manner considers the utilization of criminal prosecution against copyright infringement in the context of online distribution services by specific reference to The Pirate Bay…
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Ranjan Narula and Raka Roy consider the implications of a ruling in the Delhi High Court where the Court tried to set out a specific guideline on resolving jurisdictional issues arising in online transactions….
Jonathan Palmer reviews an uncomfortable history and looks to an interesting future, while creating his very own patentability scale….
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UK government publishes amendments to Digital Economy Bill that significantly water down the powers proposed to be given to the Secretary of State to enable amendment of UK copyright law….
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