Predictions 2014: Batch 3
Another five predictions, covering law and IT for lawyers with great perception. In alphabetical order, we have predictions from Mark Crichard, Joanna Goodman, Dr Monica Horten, Jane Seager and Graham Smith….
Intellectual Property
AG’s Opinion: Data Retention Directive Incompatible with Human Rights
According to the Advocate General, Mr Cruz Villalón, the Data Retention Directive is incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights. He proposes that the effects of the finding of invalidity should be suspended in order to enable the EU legislature to adopt, within a reasonable period, the measures necessary to remedy the invalidity found to exist so this is very far from an undermining of the data retention regime….
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It’s Raining NDAs
Paul Klinger and Rachel Burnett discuss the content and procedures involved in effective non-disclosure agreements….
Data Protection Proliferation in the Asia-Pacific
Janine Regan contemplates the rising importance attached to data protection in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region…
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Give Me Back My Bitcoins
If your Bitcoin fortune has gone missing, Michael Taylor has an analysis of your legal right of redress…
Attorney General’s Warning on Online Contempt
The Attorney General is to warn Facebook and Twitter users about contempt of court…
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SCL Event Report: Software Licensing Law: Foundations of IT Law – Module 1
Mike Reed reports on the first in the ground-breaking series of modules in SCL’s Foundation of IT Law, an event which took place at Wragge & Co on 25 November 2013…
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No Copyright in Software Functionality – SAS v WPL Final Chapter
David Cran and Adam Cusworth look back on the long-running dispute in SAS v WPL and analyse the recent culminating judgment of Lewison LJ in the Court of Appeal…
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Software Asset Management
Mark Flynn looks at how a law firm used software asset management as a tool in optimising licence use and protecting against the reputational damage that might flow from breach of licence terms…
Agile Contracting: The K03
Tom Holsøe and Mia Thulstrup Gedbjerg describe the genesis and characteristics of a new Danish standard contract for long-term IT projects based on an
agile method…