SCL Media Group Meeting Report: Hacking
The first meeting of the SCL Media Group was a resounding success, with a number of big name speakers giving valuable insights into the issues surrounding phone hacking….
Privacy & Data Protection
Ghosts in the Machine: Copyright and Temporary Copies
How does the law treat temporary copies of copyright protected material? Toby Headdon offers a careful analysis of the main relevant provisions and recent cases touching on the issue….
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SCL Meeting Report: Up Close and Personal
James Holyday reports back on the KM Group’s seminar held at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP (BLP) on 28 September 2011: ‘Up Close and Personal – Delivering the Right Information and Knowledge Management at the Point of Need’….
Freedom of Information: To Have is to Hold?
Marion Oswald looks at the implications for FOI obligations of using private e-mail for public work, and wonders how FOI and the Cloud fit together….
SCL Policy Forum Report: The New Shape of European Internet Regulation
Jaani Riordan gives a brief account of the many fascinating contributions to the SCL Policy Forum, held in London on 15 and 16 September….
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A Chapter of My Life
Jeremy Holt reflects on the experience of producing an IT law book…
In Defence of the Cloud
Eduardo Ustaran shares his views on the reported tension between EU data protectionists and the Cloud….
ICO Advice on Disclosure of Research Information
The Information Commissioner’s Office has published guidance on freedom of information legislation and research information….
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Flowering Certainty and Floundering Doubt
The ECJ’s judgment in Interflora v Marks & Spencer settles nothing in itself. But I am not sure its floral undertones will create a perfume that smells like roses to M&S – I think they will be overwhelmed by the citrus base (ie lemons). Is that really how the judgment should be viewed? I am not sure it is that simple….
Interflora v Marks & Spencer: All Still to Play For or a Win for Interflora?
The Court of Justice claims to have clarified the scope of trade mark protection in the EU but has left the High Court to determine, inter alia, whether the use by Marks & Spencer within Google’s referencing service of keywords corresponding to the trade mark of its competitor Interflora undermined any of the ‘functions’ of that trade mark and whether it was ‘free-riding’….
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