Podcast: “UsedSoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp – The Legal and Commercial Implications of the ECJ decision” – 22 November 2012
A recording of a recent SCL meeting…
Intellectual Property
Reflections on UsedSoft
Some thoughts on the UsedSoft case and its broader implications…
Technical Aspects of ‘Right to be Forgotten’: ENISA Report
The European Network and Information Security Agency has compiled a report ‘The right to be forgotten – between expectations and practice’ which it published on 20 November….
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Ofcom Survey of Consumer Online Copyright Infringement
Ofcom has published the results of a large-scale consumer tracking study into the extent of online copyright infringement. It claims to reveal that nearly half of Internet users are unsure if content is legal and that one in six believe they are accessing some illegal content…
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Boldness Be My Friend – A Year On
At the SCL Forum in September, Graham Smith spoke about the regulation of the Internet and what he saw as the best way forward. This article is an edited version of the views expressed in that talk. These are his personal views, not attributable to his law firm or to any client. A series of articles arising from the Forum will be published in the New Year – this one is very much for now as Leveson looms and decisions on the Communications Bill and social media prosecutions are considered….
No Proprietary Right in E-mails
The High Court has ruled on a company’s claim which asserted a proprietary right in the content of e-mails held by its former CEO…
Samsung v Apple Statement: Correction now Posted
Following its much publicised hard time in the Court of Appeal, Apple has now posted a new statement to its web site. It doesn’t even mention ‘cool’….
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Open Standards Principles Now in Force
Government bodies must comply with the ‘Open Standards Principles’ with effect from 1 November…
Cyber-torts and Jurisdiction
Christelle Coslin and Pauline Blondet cover some recent developments concerning the jurisdiction of the courts over torts allegedly committed on the Internet…
Book Reviews: Three Books and a Thing and a Half
Laurence Eastham looks at three books with very different aims, and two things that may or may not be books but that cannot be separated without a close inspection….
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