Paved with Good Intentions
Andrew Charlesworth focuses on universities, freedom of information and open research – and reveals that combining these promising ingredients results in an unpalatable and potentially dangerous cocktail…
Privacy & Data Protection
Towards ‘Open Lawyering’ – Revisiting The Future of Law
In an article arising from the SCL Policy Forum 2010, Jeremy Newton looks back at Richard Susskind’s ground-breaking book and examines the extent to which the paradigm has in fact shifted…
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ICO Issues More Monetary Penalties
Two councils face monetary penalties for unencrypted laptop theft…
Open Culture – Rethinking the Legal Framework
In this article, inspired by the SCL Forum 2010, Chris Reed looks at the basics of legal protection of works and questions whether the focus on the right to copy remains appropriate in radically changed circumstances….
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Reviewing the DEA
I thought you were supposed to find out if measures work before you include them in an Act of Parliament?…
Location, Location … Guidance on Applicable Law in International Data Processing Scenarios
EU regulators have issued new guidance on how to determine which Member State’s data protection rules apply in cross border commercial scenarios, including cloud computing. Claire Walker and Shona Kerr analyse that Opinion, but ask whether the objectives of the legislation might be better served by proper harmonisation of standards across Europe (and beyond)?…
Watching Cloud Contracts Take Shape
Simon Bradshaw, Christopher Millard and Ian Walden recount the results of a survey into cloud computing contracts and examine a few of the issues brought into focus by the survey…
The Future of Open Information: Open Government Data and Beyond
Jordan S Hatcher reflects his contribution to the SCL Forum, ‘The Future of Open’, focusing on the legal side of open data….
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Negotiating with Goliath
Paul Berwin and Claire Armer cover the key issues to focus on when working on an IT/IP contract between your client and a massive corporate…
Predictions – Doggy Bag
You thought that the predictions banquet had finished; we have already had the late lingering liqueurs. But there is still more fare available, making my banquet theme creak all too obviously. These predictions come jointly from Matthew Davis and Bill Onowusah and from Paul Heritage-Redpath. They are much too good to be binned as leftovers and I am indebted to Matthew for the ‘doggy bag’ suggestion….