Andres Guadamuz and Chris Marsden explain the origins of blockchain, highlight some of its applications and look to its future…
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Two recent cases have cast light on the way a court might view FRAND terms. Tom Foster sets the scene and examines the guidance that has emerged….
Read More… from Standard Essential Patents and FRAND: Recent Developments in the UK
Kit Burden looks at the potential impact of robotics process automation and related technology on the outsourcing industry and highlights some aspects that should be getting the attention of tech lawyers operating in the outsourcing sphere….
Read More… from Automation in Outsourcing: Are the Robots about to Eat our Lunch?
Kuan Hon mourns the (impending) death of cloud computing at the hands of the GDPR, and even suggests a song to sing while preparing for its demise…
Following the presentation by the EU Commission of its proposals for a replacement for Safe Harbour – the Privacy Shield – the Article 29 Working Party has released a statement of its position….
Read More… from Article 29 Working Party Statement re Schrems, Safe Harbour and the Privacy Shield
In his first communication with SCL members as SCL Chair, Mark O’Conor gives a sense of where SCL has got to and where it can go as a Society over the next few years….
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a self-regulatory body and an Internet news portal were not liable for the offensive online comments of their readers…
Read More… from New Court Judgment on Intermediary Body’s Liability for User Comments
The House of Commons Committee on Science and Technology Committee has published its report on the draft IP Bill…
In the latest in our series of articles focusing on aspects of the GDPR, Tim Hickman and Dr. Detlev Gabel review the various rights granted under the GDPR, consider how they differ from the current set of rights set out in the Directive and go on to consider the impact that each such right is likely to have on organisations that act as data controllers….
Paul Golding considers the perennial arguments among negotiating lawyers about limitation of liability and indemnities in the special context of data security. He also looks at the impact that might be seen from the GDPR and hopes to hear the views of others with different perspectives….