Holding Back the Digital Tide
Colin Hulme and Jennifer Whitehead reflect on enforcement of IPR in a converged world, and recognise its limits….
Intellectual Property
Come on, Come on, Let’s Stick Together
David Halliday assesses the potential for the current environment to drive parties to existing IT procurement and outsourcing deals to reconsider their position – and where they might end up….
1.4(2)(k)
Has it, and IT, gone missing from the Jackson Report?…
Internet Squatters: Eviction from a .IE Domain Name
Tess Crean outlines the dispute resolution procedure for .ie domain names….
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Will Social Networking Services Survive Only at the Expense of Privacy?
This is the essay which won Philip Hutchinson the SCL Essay Prize 2009….
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Susan Byrne and Susan Boyle
The Jonathan Zittrain comparison: surely some mistake? Not at all….
Editorial
In the last few weeks, I have resolved on a number of occasions to cover a new development on the SCL Web site or to note it in the Editor’s Blog, only to find that it has become so widely covered in mainstream media that there seems at first glance to be nothing for a…
Data Protection: Missing the Bigger Issue
In this opinion piece, Ian McDougall explains why he believes that the focus on data disasters and the technicalities of processing are obscuring the vision we need for a new way forward for data protection….
Hurrah for the ICO
The ICO have gained some street cred in dealing with Street View. But does it get two cheers or three?…
The Sinking of Pirate Bay
Nick McDonald believes that the decision by a Swedish court to convict Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde of assisting making available copyrighted content’ is potentially significant, but that caution needs to shown in immediately suggesting it will have wider effect….