The terms and conditions of use of the new Web browser from Google have been amended following a negative reaction to a first draft that would have caught all rights to users’ content. Laurence Eastham guesses that SCL members will be full of sympathy….
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Andrew Tibber explores Norwich Pharmacal orders and their increasing relevance in helping claimants identify online wrongdoers….
Touching on porno hedgehogs and Croatian language recognition systems, Andrew Harbison and Pearse Ryan offer a fascinating insight into the problems associated with analysing unstructured data and the limitations inherent in using computers for electronic discovery. They also explain how the problems are not just of concern to litigators but to data protection lawyers and others too….
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So many open source licences, so little time. In a twist on Top of the Pops, Bill Jones, Brian Meenagh and Sally Mewies ask which licences matter most and give a brief guide to the essential features of each….
Catherine Stromdale considers the threat from Ryanair to cancel scraped flights. How can the way a contract comes into being affect its enforceability? Who will be left to deal with the losses arising?…
Mike Gardner and Kara Landsborough-McDonald offer a comparison of English and French approaches to the liability of Internet companies for trade mark infringement…
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The House of Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has published its latest report. It includes firm views on user-generated content and ISP liability, social networking and privacy, ministerial responsibilities and games classification….
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A number of recent libel and privacy decisions have highlighted the dangers of an unregulated Internet. Ashley Hurst highlights some of those dangers and suggests an approach which would reduce them….
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Dr Fernando Barrio considers the problems which will be posed for the law by the development of autonomous robots and, by way of an example, looks more closely at how they may be treated under the law on sexual offences….
A decision in the European Court of Human Rights may have profound implications for data protection systems within State control….