SCL’s 3rd Annual Policy Forum – audio recordings and speaker’s slides available to download….
Read More… from SCL Podcast: Legislating for Web 2.0 – Preparing for the Communications Act?
The SCL Conference in Edinburgh focuses on Convergence 3.0. Laurence Eastham let’s you know what you are going to miss if you fail to go….
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The end of the Law Society’s CPD year is fast approaching. Read why SCL e-learning is the e-ffective and e-conomical way to gain CPD, and to gain real understanding….
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The Harry Potter Lexicon has been adjudged to breach copyright. The judgment has implications for ‘mixing and mashing’ on the Web. The full judgment in the action brought by Warner Bros and J K Rowling in New York has now been published….
The Home Secretary announced on 10 September that the government has terminated its contract with PA Consulting, following the recent high profile data loss. In addition, Jacqui Smith announced that all contracts signed by the government with private companies are to be reviewed to ensure that they are appropriate. Andrew Rigby of Brodies considers the legal implications of the termination….
Read More… from Government Review of Data Processing Contracts
SCL members are asked to contribute to a response to the IPO consultation paper on penalties for copyright infringement. Nick Cunningham is seeking input from members….
Read More… from Consultation: Penalties for Online Copyright Infringement
In this highly original analysis, Nicholas Bohm and Joel Harrison take a fresh look, from a very different angle, at the issues that arise from Web profiling. Does it infringe Web site owners’ IPR?…
Read More… from Profiling Web Users – Some Intellectual Property Problems
Alastair Morrison updates readers on his views on SaaS and considers the possibility that cloud computing will transform the way in which lawyers buy and use IT….
The terms and conditions of use of the new Web browser from Google have been amended following a negative reaction to a first draft that would have caught all rights to users’ content. Laurence Eastham guesses that SCL members will be full of sympathy….
Read More… from Schadenfreude Fest: The Google Chrome Licence Glitch
Two organisations join forces ‘to strengthen and clarify the advice given to the end user community relating to best practice for Software Asset Management (SAM) and achieving cost efficient licence compliance’….
Read More… from Federation Against Software Theft and Investors in Software Join Forces