With contributions from a lawyer working in the computer industry, an innovative provider of online legal services, a barrister with IT nous and hands-on litigation experience and a leading expert on evidence and documentation issues, these predictions range widely and offer intriguing points for all…
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Helen Hart reports on Tuesday’s SCL Annual Conference ‘IT Law Hot Topics 2012: The IT law you need for 2013’…
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Robert Jones moves on from the debate about the attractions of new e-disclosure technology to consider some of the real issues that may arise when it is actually used in the heat of dispute…
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Mike Taylor gives his assessment of technology assisted review…
A recent Internet libel case highlights the extensive reach of ‘immunity’ for information services providers. Laurence Eastham attempts to pick out the more interesting aspects of a 99-paragraph judgment….
Rene Summer suggests that we need an action-plan to embrace digitization of creativity in the digital single market and a statement of inviolable digital liberties…
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Carl Gardner writes on the rejected appeal by BT and TalkTalk over the Digital Economy Act’s impact on ISPs. This article is taken from his timely blog post on the always stimulating Head of Legal blog: www.headoflegal.com…
What are the implications of the Opinion of the Advocate General in SAS v WPL? Paul Barton and Emily Parris offer an account of the Advocate General’s reasoning and considered comment on it….
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The Opinion of Advocate General Bot in SAS v World Programming has now been published. In his view, the functionalities of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright. The source code of a program may, if certain conditions are met, be reproduced in order to ensure interoperability with another program….
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Ofcom has published a document setting out its approach to net neutrality issues….