SCL Event Report: Negotiating IT Contracts
Mike Ahyow reports on the latest event in the Foundations of IT Law series (Module 5) which was held on 11 May 2016 and hosted by Osborne Clarke LLP….
Intellectual Property
Panama Papers: Implications for In-house Lawyers and Private Practice
Michael Wigley and James Young-Drew highlight the cybersecurity dangers that the Panama Papers hack revealed…
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Humans, Machines and Regulators: FinTech in the Human-to-Human Economy and Beyond
Joachim Schwerin confronts blockchain (‘the most disruptive part of the FinTech universe’), touches on crowdfunding and gives his personal views on the way to deal with such disruption from a policy perspective. Joachim is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic FinTech – IT and Financial Services Regulation….
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Digital Enablement of Banking Services in an API Economy
With digital disruption high on the agenda for organisations working in the financial services industry, Kenny Robertson looks at the importance of APIs and what the adoption of progressive API strategies might bring with particular reference to his own employer, RBS. Kenny Robertson is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic FinTech – IT and Financial Services Regulation….
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Computer Program Functionality and Copyright
Lucie Audibert won the SCL Student Essay Prize 2016 with this piece addressing the question: To what extent should the functionality, as opposed to the source code, of computer programs be protected by copyright….
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SCL Student Essay Prize 2016: Winner and Top Five
SCL is pleased to announce that Lucie Audibert of LSE has won this year’s student essay prize competition…
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Age of Consent
Tim Turner offers his forthright view that the requirement for clear and unambiguous consent under the GDPR is clear and unambiguous, and raises concerns about the advice given to some in the charity sector that muddies this clarity….
EU Commission v Google: Latest Development on Anti-trust
The EU Commission has sent a Statement of Objections to Google relating to its Android operating system and applications. This is a significant step in terms of competition law proceedings….
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Editorial
Blockchain Among the updates, case analysis, further focus on GDPR and valuable insights on outsourcing, the main feature of this issue is the articles on blockchain. The focus on blockchain arises from a combination of (i) a recognition on my part that blockchain was a hot topic, with many people I respected emphasising, and clearly…
Legality of Hyperlinking: Advocate General’s Opinion
The Advocate General’s Opinion has been published in a case referred to the CJEU questioning the liability of a person posting a link to a website that hosts copyright infringing material…
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