Today’s cheeky taster from the predictions chocolate assortment is a melange of forecasts from three men with special e-disclosure expertise, but it goes beyond e-disclosure to offer undertones of praline and a strong after-taste of essence of law firm practice. Read the predictions of Andrew Haslam, Mike Taylor and Charles Holloway….
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The Opinion of Advocate General Bot in SAS v World Programming has now been published. In his view, the functionalities of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright. The source code of a program may, if certain conditions are met, be reproduced in order to ensure interoperability with another program….
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Advent Sunday has come and gone so perhaps it is not too soon to open the first window of the advent calendar and consume the first morsel. Maybe it is too soon, but I could wait no longer. There are many more to come….
The government’s new Cyber Security Strategy was published on 25 November….
The ECJ has ruled on a reference from Spain about the processing of personal data and the free movement of data and the effect of the Data Protection Directive…
The Court of Justice has ruled that EU law precludes the imposition of an injunction by a national court which requires an Internet service provider to install a filtering system with a view to preventing the illegal downloading of files…
Ofcom has published a document setting out its approach to net neutrality issues….
David Cran and Charlotte Ward give an account of the recent High Court case, Plentyoffish Media Inc. v Plenty More Llp….
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4.74 degrees is not the Three Degrees putting on weight but refers to new research on Facebook connections. And it matters if you are serious about using social media to prosper and survive….
Alex Hall suggests that the major changes to the domain name structure are not a cause for panic and explains what is really involved….
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