Binding Corporate Rules: New Guidance
European data protection authorities have adopted a new working document on Binding Corporate Rules for Processors…
Lawtech & Lawyers
Due Diligence in a Cloud Environment
Tania Williams highlights some of the key areas that customers should consider as part of their cloud computing due diligence exercise…
Negotiated Cloud Contracts: Cloud Legal Project’s Latest Report
QMUL’s Cloud Legal Project has released its report of research into negotiated cloud contracts, offering its insights into the key areas negotiated by cloud users and the development of the cloud market…
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Resale of Software Licences: Advocate General’s Opinion
According to the Advocate General, creators of computer programs may oppose the resale of ‘used’ licences which allow their programs to be downloaded from the Internet again. However, he suggests that they may not oppose the resale of ‘used’ copies, downloaded by their own customers from the Internet, given that their exclusive right of distribution relating to those copies is ‘exhausted’….
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G-Cloud v1: Cloud Legal Project’s Analysis
QMUL’s Cloud Legal Project has released its analysis of the UK G-Cloud v1 and highlights key cloud issues…
The 12 Cs of Cloud Computing: A Culinary Confection
Kuan Hon summarises some fundamentally important elements of cloud computing and clarifies with culinary comparators. Don’t read this article when you are hungry!…
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SCL 7th Annual Policy Forum: “Brave New Worlds: Computer and Communications Law Reform”
Chris Marsden explains why the next SCL Policy Forum, to be held on 13/14 September 2012, will be special, even more special than normal, and why it is likely to be a major influence on the IT law agenda….
In-house IT Law Jobs Market Remains Strong
Christian Brown discusses the latest trends across the in-house IT jobs market….
The DSM and the Need for a Digital Magna Carta
Rene Summer suggests that we need an action-plan to embrace digitization of creativity in the digital single market and a statement of inviolable digital liberties…
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Outsourcing in the Public Sector in Ireland
Pearse Ryan reviews a history of plans and policy documents on outsourcing and asks ‘where to next?’…