XP – Final Warning!
Alastair Morrison repeats his warning for those using Windows XP – still a substantial proportion of small law firm users….
Intellectual Property
Software Development: How the Traditional Contract Model Increases the Risk of Failure
Susan Atkinson and Gabrielle Benefield analyse recent research and draw disturbing conclusions about the ‘Contract Model’…
Human Enhancement Technologies – Edging towards the Cyborg?
Dr Benjamin Farrand asks: can you be greater than the sum of your parts? He considers just some of the socio-legal problems with Human Enhancement Technologies…
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SCL Lecture Report: Big and Open Data
Scott Allardyce reports on the SCL 40th Anniversary Lecture from Professor Nigel Shadbolt. A podcast of the Lecture is now available on the site….
Bad Bots
If you count software bots as robots then robots are already being used to deceive and exploit people who mistake them for humans. Miranda Mowbray enlightens you….
Data Protection: Facebook and the Right Kind of Establishment
Julia Hörnle looks at a German case concerning the application of EU data protection law to foreign service providers and similar questions arising elsewhere in the EU, all of which raise issues about what amounts to the right kind of establishment…
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Under the Surface
Paul Mew asks how the new Microsoft tablet compares to Apple’s business–world dominating iPad…
Security for Sub-licensees?
Rod J. Cowper, Ben Goodger and Ellen Hughes-Jones ask if there is new security for sub-licensees. The question arises following a High Court ruling that a sub-licence for the use of software survived the termination of the head licence under which it was granted. This article appears in the April edition of In-House Lawyer. It is a more detailed analysis than the article from the same authors, Sub-licence Survivor, which appeared on this site last month….
Pirate Bay and Human Rights
To no great surprise, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that The Pirate Bay co-founders’ criminal conviction for assisting copyright infringement on the Internet was justified…
Advergames – Play With Caution
advergame (noun): an electronic game that promotes a particular brand, product, or marketing message by integrating it into the game. Advergames are subject to the supervision of the Advertising Standards Authority. Sacha Wilson reviews some of the ASA adjudications and clarifies the rules of this particular game….