Phone hacking and e-disclosure are dominating the news at present. E-disclosure specialist, Mike Taylor reviews the high profile News International dramas and draws out a few lessons, for the Murdochs and others. His title is taken from James Murdoch’s evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport select Committee….
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Inspired by Humpty Dumpty and philosopher John Locke, John Yates explains how to interpret and draft technology contracts by applying the lessons from case law….
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has given judgment in the long-standing dispute between L’Oréal (and various subsidiaries) and eBay (and some of the sellers on eBay), concerning the sale, without L’Oréal’s consent, of L’Oréal products on the online marketplace operated by eBay. It is bad news for eBay but it may have much wider implications….
Dino Wilkinson analyses the new draft privacy law published in Qatar…
Now firmly established as a leading event on the calendar for both IT law academics and IT law practitioners, the SCL Forum 2011 will grapple with Internet law reform. While a combination of blue-sky thinking and grounded, practical views sounds like a recipe for disaster, experience shows that it leads to a very special event….
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Andrew Priest gives his thoughts on a talk by Stephen Deadman of the Vodafone Group at a meeting of the Thames Valley Group on 8 June….
Stephen Mathias analyses important new laws which have an impact on all businesses operating in or having connections with India….
The next SCL Conference, to be held on 14 and 15 October in Bath, focuses on risk and technology, but you are not at risk on one score: the Conference always offers guaranteed value….
The ICO has forced a CCTV web site Internet Eyes to make changes following privacy concerns…
Cynthia O’Donoghue and Nick Tyler review the Article 29 Working Party Opinion 13/2011 on geo-location services on smart mobile devices. They also ask: where do we go from here?…