SCL Event Report: Annual IT Contracts Update 2014
Matt Sharkey reports on Richard Stephens recent tour de force at the SCL Annual IT Contracts Update…
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Intellectual Property
Indemnity and Limitation of Liability Provisions in Software Product Licensing Contracts
Using his experience compiled over a series of transactions, Raghunath Ananthapur brings these two common contractual provisions into close focus and offers his insights into the ‘market standard’ and the approaches that work best….
CJEU Rules that Hyperlinks are OK! Unless there’s a ‘New Public’
According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, the owner of a web site may, without the authorisation of the copyright holders, redirect internet users, via hyperlinks, to protected works available on a freely accessible basis on another site. But that ‘freely accessible’ reservation is important…
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Lush v Amazon: High Court Judgment on Trade Mark Infringement Online
The latest High Court judgment on protected search terms has resulted in a triumph for the specialist cosmetics company, Lush…
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The Price of Convenience
Lillian Pang and Peter Lee ask some difficult questions about data protection and privacy regulation, the effects of the ‘hoovering-up’ of data by all manner of applications and the extent of the real demand for privacy in the use of technology…
Nominet and Inappropriate Terms in Domain Names
Jane Seager explains a new policy development arising from concerns about the use of offensive terms, including those describing serious sexual offences, in domain names registered by Nominet…
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Game Over for Excessive TPM?: The Nintendo Ruling
Gareth Dickson explains what the recent CJEU ruling really means, as the Court clarifies when a computer program is not a ‘computer program’. Gareth goes on to consider the practical implications of the limited guidance given by the Court….
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Trade Secrets
A group of lawyers from Linklaters offices across Europe look at the proposals for Europe-wide protection of trade secrets, and the implications for the IT sector. The authors are Daniel Pauly (Frankfurt), Pieter Van Den Broecke and Tom de Coster (Brussels), Ewa Kurowska-Tober (Warsaw), Pauline Debré (Paris) and Peter Church (London)….
ECJ Judgment on Circumvention of Games Console Protection
According to a Curia press release, the ECJ has ruled that circumventing a protection system of a games console may, in certain circumstances, be lawful and that the manufacturer of the console is protected against circumvention only in the case where the protection measures seek to prevent illegal use of games…
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Injunctions, Limitation of Damages and True Loss
Richard Osborne considers the issues that arose in a fascinating recent High Court case, where one party sought an interim injunction to stop the other from terminating a contract…
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