Directive on Accessibility
The EU Council has now accepted the public sector web accessibility directive…
Publishing & social media
Dirty Laundry: The 3inder and Tinder Spat
Alicia Mendonca explains how a dating app famous for threesomes is responding to legal action from Tinder with a hashtag and dirty socks…
Smart? Blockchain, DAO and Decentralization
Andres Guadamuz returns to blockchain, including an introduction to some basic concepts for those not familiar with the technology, and goes on to cover recent developments, particularly the latest multi-million hacking attacks involving Ethereum’s DAO, which suggests that smart contracts are only as smart as the people drafting them…
Book Review: The Closing of the Net
Laurence Eastham reviews the latest publication from Monica Horten. The Closing of the Net is published by Polity Press, £15.99 in paperback. ISBN 13:978-1-5095-0689-7. Kindle £11.99, Hardcover £45….
Protecting the Real Value of Computer Programs: Functionality and Source Code
This piece from Lorraine Chimbga was a runner-up in the SCL Student Essay Prize competition. It addressed the following topic (from a range of suggested topics): To what extent should the functionality, as opposed to the source code, of computer programs be protected by copyright….
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Fundamentally Giddy: An IFCLA Conference Report
David Chaplin reflects his personal reaction to the IFCLA Conference 2016 and reports on the many varied sessions…
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Are We Fit for the Machine Age?
Mischa Dohler gave a thought-provoking keynote at the IFCLA Conference 2016 and this article reflects the issues he raised there. For those who attended IFCLA 2016, it is a timely reminder not to stop thinking about the larger issues now they are back at the day job; for those who missed the Conference, it gives a sense of what they missed….
Blockchain 2.0, Smart Contracts and Legal Challenges
Martin von Haller Groenbaek looks at some of the basic issues concerning smart contracts. Martin is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference on the topic ‘Virtual Currencies and other Blockchain Environments’…
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The Internet of Things and Privacy: When Do Privacy Laws Apply?
John Beardwood and Mark Bowman offer some insights from a Canadian perspective into the impact of the IoT on privacy in an extract from a much longer paper The Internet of Things and Privacy: An Analytic Framework. This extract tackles one of the crucial issues. The full paper may be downloaded as a pdf from the panel opposite. John Beardwood is one of the speakers at the IFCLA Conference 2016….
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Have ‘Generation Tagged’ Lost their Privacy?
Marion Oswald asks if our laws are keeping up with social media? The Supreme Court’s ‘Celebrity Threesome’ judgment means the jury’s still out….
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