Creative Commons: A Guide to the Essentials
Creative Commons is having an increasing impact on copyright in all sorts of fields. Andrew Mills outlines the basics that you have to know to retain credibility….
Intellectual Property
Law 2.0: New Speech, New Property, New Identity
Daithí Mac Síthigh reports on the recent SCL Policy Forum, sponsored by SCL and Herbert Smith and held on 17 and 18 September in London….
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Remote Gambling: The New Law
As the roulette wheel turns and the Gambling Act 2005 is about to settle into one of its very large pockets, Jimmy Desai gives a brief guide to the aspects of the newly introduced Act which might affect IT lawyers….
Editorial
How Much Protecting Do ISPs Need? The recent report of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee (HL Paper 165) is not likely to have the ISP moguls at NTL or BT reaching for their security blankets but it might well be a useful weathervane. I sense a change in wind direction. In…
Law 2.0?
Alastair Morrison examines the benefits of SaaS (Software as a Service)….
Facing Up To Facebook
Allan Yeoman outlines some of the dangers, to employee and employer, of social networking and offers a view on workplace use of Facebook….
Wi-fi Leeching: A Pub Visitor’s Guide
The widely reported arrest of another person for ‘stealing an unsecured broadband connection’ has led to comment in all sorts of media. There have even been discussions of the morality of such actions on the BBC web site. IT lawyers may wish to brush up on the matter so that they can retain credibility in the pub or at the Bank Holiday BBQ….
House of Lords Report on Personal Internet Security
The Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lords published a report on 10 August. It includes a series of interesting conclusions and recommendations. Read a brief summary and comment and access the full report….
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Who Owns Contacts Lists?
A new ruling on a list of business contacts suggests that employers may have rights over personal contact lists held on their computers….
GPL – the Linking Debate
With GPL very much in the spotlight, Andrew Katz focuses on the linking mechanism used by programmers and its special implications….