Predictions 2007
Each year we ask a selection of IT law and legal technology experts for their predictions for the coming year. These are the collected predictions. Those most recently added appear first in this format….
Privacy & Data Protection
Aerotel/Macrossan – What Have We Learnt about the Patentability of Software?
Jason Rix analyses the importance of, and reports on the judgment in, the Aerotel/Macrossan case….
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Use of Service Catalogues in IT Outsourcing Contracts
Service catalogues are, as Andrew Withers explains, increasingly being viewed as an integral part of major outsourcing contracts. But they can be all too easily neglected and misunderstood….
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A VeRO Real Threat
Shelley Hill reports on the interim application in Quads 4 Kids v Campbell and speculates on the implications for IP rights holders and eBay….
Article 29 – Privacy Directive
Helen Hart considers the opinion published by the Article 29 Working Party on the European Commission’s consultation on the regulatory framework for communications….
Life After Grokster
Maureen Daly analyses the varying approaches to the battle against unlawful file sharing and developments on this front in a number of jurisdictions….
The Reynolds Public Interest Defence
Andrew Joyce gives his illuminating account of the recent House of Lords judgment in Jameel v Wall Street Journal. This is a case which has a real impact on all engaged in responsible journalism, whether online or in print. But online publishers, driven by new time constraints and with worldwide vulnerability for defamation, must pay it special attention….
SCL Responds to House of Lords Select Committee
SCL has now submitted its evidence to the House of Lords Committee on personal Internet Security. The full submission can be accessed here….
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Whither (or Wither?) the Technology Lawyer?
Rory Graham modestly subtitled his article ‘Musings of a General Practitioner’. This article comes from one of the leading practitioners of IT law and may well provoke debate amongst SCL’s membership….
IT Contracts in the Public Sector
Prior to the forthcoming SCL Conference, Public Sector-Private Challenge, Clive Davies offers a wide-ranging analysis of the complex developments in public sector IT contracting….