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….
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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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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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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Richard Kemp highlights the rise in risk associated with NPE activity in the cloud computing sphere….
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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…
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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Falk Schoening, Rod Freeman and Sebastian Polly consider the European Parliament’s call for new rules for robots…
Fergal Duggan reports on the ‘Content licensing – recent trends and virtual worlds’ event held on 20 February 2016 and hosted by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP….
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Matt Ives reports on the annual update of contract law from Richard Stephens, held on 8 February 2016 and hosted by Hogan Lovells International LLP….