Reselling Software Licences
Following the UsedSoft ruling, Robin Fry asks where we are now…
Lawtech & Lawyers
Cloud, Patents and Semantics
Why do patent professionals spend so much time trying to find the right words to describe an invention? Nick Reeve shows how the story of cloud computing technology, and the words used to describe it, provide an explanation….
Book Review: Cloud Computing: A Practical Introduction to the Legal Issues
‘It’s amazing how they can transmit the internet through the clouds, isn’t it? What jurisdiction are they even in?’ I checked that my friend wasn’t in fact referring to Google’s Loon project or Facebook’s solar-powered drones (where these are pertinent questions[[http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/can-we-trust-google-with-the-stratosphere/278797/]]) and then offered to lend him this book: Renzo Marchini’s ‘Cloud Computing: A Practical…
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What’s the Big Deal? Big Data in the Financial Services Sector
Jonny Emmanuel considers the big questions surrounding Big Data…
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Smart City, Surveillance City
Too often a technology’s capacity and curiosity about its limits leads to an unremitting focus on achieving a goal without considering the desirability of the goal. Smart Cities may be no different. David Murakami Wood offers a refreshing focus on the links between smart cities and surveillance….
The Last Mile: The Smart City Meets Social Innovation
In another in our series of articles on Smart Cities, Rob Procter describes a vision for the smart city – more open and more community focused than the norm…
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Cloud Computing: Export Controls and Sanctions
Export controls and sanctions can be a trap for the unwary engaged in technology exports. But few think of the cloud as a risk area for breach of these orders and sanctions. Richard Tauwhare explains why you should take such risks to heart….
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Digital Single Market Strategy: IT Law Highlights
Although the launch of the EU Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy on 6 May will no doubt make it into the major news media even in this period of pre-election obsession, accurate reporting cannot be guaranteed. Highlighted below are some of the observations and views expressed by the Commission in their strategy document and the key proposals that affect IT lawyers….
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eDisclosure: The Perfect ESI Storm
Deborah Blaxell examines the trends and forecasts a stormy outlook, which poses a real danger for those not properly prepared…
Law Firms and Data Protection ‘Breaches’
A response to an FOI request suggests that the ICO investigated 173 UK law firms for reported breaches in 2014…