SCL Mentoring – a call to your better self!
Mark Lumley on why becoming an SCL Mentor would be good for the Society, good for society and good for you….
Intellectual Property
Resale Price Maintenance and Artificial Intelligence
Anna Morfey and Amandine Gueret consider recent developments which offer a first glimpse into growing challenges for EU competition law…
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SIMs: Suitable Information Mollifies Subscribers?
Neil Brown draws lessons from a recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning pre-loaded SIM cards…
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CJEU Judgment on Inertia Selling on Pre-loaded SIM Cards
According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, the sale of SIM cards on which services that can incur fees have been pre-loaded and pre-activated constitutes an aggressive unfair commercial practice when the consumers are not informed of that fact in advance….
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EU Commission Proposal on Online Terrorist Content
The European Commission has published proposals for new legislation ‘to get terrorist content off the web, making sure that the same obligations are imposed in a uniform manner across the whole Union’….
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BA Breach and Porn Viewing Age-verification
Laurence Eastham on two disparate topics that collided in his time-line this week and made a connection that goes beyond the mere chronological….
Scoping Exercise
Mark O’Conor reflects on SCL’s activities and looks forward to the forthcoming SCL Conference…
GDPR – an Unqualified Right to Rectification?
Jon Baines asks whether the FCA – or any data controller – can any longer argue that it’s too expensive to have to rectify inaccurate personal data…
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Artificial Intelligence: Who’s to blame?
Lynn Richmond looks at the way we apportion blame in law and the need for a reconsideration of the relevant law in the light of the development of AI. She goes on to bring the issue close to home by considering the liability of lawyers in the future AI-influenced practice of law…
Website Photos and Copyright
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the posting on a website of a photograph that was freely accessible on another website with the consent of the author requires a new authorisation by that author…