The Good Life?
Gillian Cordall seeks to enlighten readers about Second Life – a world of avatars, anarchy and infinite variety – and the approach to legal problems within that world….
Intellectual Property
Why Do Technology Projects?
Sometimes the basic questions are asked last, and too late. Adam Westbrooke offers a constructive approach to the most basic question affecting IT in law firms….
Renegotiating Outsourcing Deals: Why, When and How
Kit Burden looks at one of the tricky aspects of outsourcing deals….
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Data Processing
Renzo Marchini reports on the recent Court of Appeal decision on David Paul Johnson v The Medical Defence Union Limited [2007] EWCA Civ 262…
Combatting Homographic Attacks on Domain Names
Your domain name and those of your clients could be at risk from a soundalike, lookalike, evil, Cyrillic twin. Carolyn Pepper, Emma Pitcher and Milan Joshi explain….
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Freedom of Information Fees: SCL Response
Read extracts from the SCL response to the Consultation Paper from the DCA on fees for supplying data and the imposition of a limit on the expense of supply. The response argued for a rethink. The DCA has now decided to give an opportunity for further consultation….
Hyperlinking
Alex Newson gives an overview of the legal issues from an EU & US law perspective. This is an updated version of the original article, taking account of the appeal ruling in Perfect 10 v Google….
Pool Cues and Computer Games: the ‘look and feel’ debate played out in the Court of Appeal
The English Court of Appeal has recently confirmed that copying the ‘look and feel’ of a computer program without copying the program code does not, without more, amount to copyright infringement. Ben Allgrove and Paul McGrath explain….
‘Greater Force’ – or a Good Excuse for Non-performance?
Christoff Pienaar looks at force majeure and its effect on contracts. Bearing in mind that force majeure clauses inserted into outsourcing and IT services could seriously undermine a customer’s disaster recovery plans, the concept of ‘greater force’ needs to be very fully understood….
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E-disclosure, Needles and Haystacks
Alex Charlton and Matthew Lavy recount their recent experience of e-disclosure in an article that might well be entitled ‘E-disclosure: Where it went wrong (and how we can fix it).’…