High Court Dams the Goal Stream
The FA Premier League has succeeded in its attempt to get the UK’s leading ISPs to block a site streaming sports coverage in breach of copyright…
Intellectual Property
Public Sector IT: A Template for Digital Catastrophe
In the light of yet another cancelled public sector IT project – this time the BBC’s new content management system – Rory Graham takes a personal look at why so many public sector technology deals go wrong, and what needs to change….
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TOR: ‘Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate’
Simon Worthy offers a view on the dangers of TOR and the perceived inadequacies of reaction to the dangers it seems willingly to embrace. Whether it is really Dantesque and whether all hope should be abandoned is a matter that SCL members may wish to debate….
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SCL Meeting Report: Back to Basics: IP for IT Lawyers
James Smith reports on the SCL Seminar held at Speechly Bircham on 26 June 2013…
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A Common Story: Software Developer Loses Rights
Michael Wigley looks at a recent High Court judgment and the lessons that flow from it…
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No ‘Stay Down’ Obligation for Hosting Providers in France
Christelle Coslin and Christine Gateau explain the significance of important 2012 judgments in the French Supreme Court, which ruled that there is no obligation on hosting providers in France to ensure that notified content is not later re-posted online by its users…
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Editorial
It has been the best of times; it has been the worst of times. On the one hand, we have had moves towards open data that saw the G8 leaders sign up to the Open Data Charter, some very positive Government responses to the Shakespeare Review of Public Sector Information and impressive commitments to co-operative…
ECJ Supports Copyright Levy on Printers and Computers
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the levy for the reproduction of protected works can be imposed on the sale of a printer or a computer…
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Advocate General: Search Engines Not Responsible for Data on Web
Advocate General Jääskinen considers that search engine service providers are not responsible, on the basis of the Data Protection Directive, for personal data appearing on web pages they process….
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‘Something bad might happen’: Lawyers, Anonymization and Risk
Anonymized data? Maybe not so anonymous. Marion Oswald explains how anonymization offers a real challenge to lawyers and that they might not always be best equipped to deal with it…
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