SCL Event Report: SCL Privacy & DP Group on Big Data
Laurence Eastham reports on the meeting of the SCL Privacy & DP Group on 10 May which was hosted by Hunton & Williams LLP…
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Privacy & Data Protection
Digital Economy Act 2017 Published
The final version of the Digital Economy Act 2017 has been published online. Some significant provisions come into force on 25 June….
Smart and Connected Cities: Surmounting the Challenges
David Berry highlights the practical and legal challenges inherent in any smart city initiative and suggests some approaches that might minimise the risks arising from those challenges…
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There’s something very familiar about all this…
Ben Hughes explores the opportunities presented by the deployment of current and impending disruptive technologies in the retail and consumer sector….
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Personal Data Disclosure: Latest CJEU Judgment
The Court of Justice of the European Union has considered whether there is any obligation to disclose personal data in the context of attempts to identify the driver allegedly responsible for a road traffic accident…
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Filmspeler and the Expansion of Communication to the Public
Mark Owen, Adam Rendle and Maarten Rijks review the recent judgment and focus on the way in which the case continues the CJEU’s expansion of communication to the public…
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Cases Catch-up
Lending of e-books According to the CJEU in Case C-174/15 Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken v Stichting Leenrecht lending of an electronic book (e-book) may, under certain conditions, be treated in the same way as the lending of a traditional book. The public lending exception, which provides inter alia for the fair remuneration of authors, is applicable. Background In the…
Subject Access Requests: Four Key Cases
Khurram Shamsee draws the key lessons from the recent cases on SARs…
Editorial
This issue is dominated by articles about the edgier tech law topics, with Neil Brown’s piece on Sextech being the big online hit of the last few months (no surprise there, but I suspect we may have had some disappointed online visitors) and delebs and algorithms causing plenty of interest too. But even though those…
CJEU Judgment on Multimedia Player and Copyright Breaches
In a surprising judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union has held that the sale of a multimedia player can be a communication to the public and breach of copyright…
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