FA v BT: The Streaming Block Case Explained
Joel Smith and Laura Deacon report and comment on the recent judgment in which the High Court ordered ISPs to block their customers from receiving unauthorised streaming of Premier League football matches…
Intellectual Property
Algorithms and the Rule of Law
Rónán Kennedy explores fundamental issues surrounding the use of algorithms…
AI and DP
Laurence Eastham offers a guarded welcome to a lengthy discussion paper from the ICO…
SAP v Diageo and Limits on Licences
Andrew Crystal and Eliot Henderson cover a significant ruling for software customers and providers, in which the High Court found that Diageo breached the ‘Named User’ pricing mechanism of its software licence agreement with SAP….
Online Defamatory Comments and Balancing Rights
The European Court of Human Rights has held that a refusal to hold the owner of a blog liable for a defamatory anonymous online comment did not violate the ECHR…
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Company Registers and the ‘Right to be Forgotten’
The CJEU has given judgment in a case where an applicant sought to have information in a companies register held by a Chamber of Commerce anonymised…
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Privacy and mHealth Apps: EU Draft Code of Conduct
Pearse Ryan, Colin Rooney and Hugh McCarthy take a careful look at the key features of the European Commission’s draft code of conduct on privacy for mobile health applications…
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Cloud Computing: Software Patent Claims and the Risks to Service Availability
Richard Kemp highlights the rise in risk associated with NPE activity in the cloud computing sphere….
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Mind Over Matter? Part II: Implied Terms
Alex Shattock and Gideon Shirazi weigh the impact of recent Supreme Court judgments on claims relating to implied terms and contemplate their impact in the context of some common tech project scenarios…
Law Commission Consultation and Data Protection
There is an important opportunity to influence future legislation that is being obscured by a controversy over protection for ‘whistle-blowers’…
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