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Seamless Roaming and the Legal Organisation: Choosing a Partner

April 30, 1998

The legal marketplace is truly dynamic. The opening up of new markets, increased competition and demands from clients mean law firms need to maintain their competitive advantage, keep fee earners and staff happy and reduce business process times, complexities and costs. Furthermore, the increasing pace of mergers, acquisitions and general re-structuring of business is driving…

Metatags and the Reed case – a few discordant notes?

April 30, 1998

The recent dispute between Reed Executive PLC and Reed Business Information Limited over the use of the mark REED on a job vacancy web site including its metatags and in related banner ads recently came before the High Court. Reed Executive triumphed and deservedly so in the view of the author, however, the reasoning employed in the case could in the view of the author result in some very unfair outcomes if followed in the future in the context of metatags….

Transcript of SCL’s 30th Anniversary Lecture by Richard Christou

April 30, 1998

This is the edited transcript of Richard Christou’s lecture on the occasion of the SCL’s 30th Anniversary….

M-legal

April 30, 1998

This tour of m-legal issues and technologies from Paul Lambert was also published in the Irish Law Society Gazette….

Developing Successful Privacy Relationships

April 30, 1998

This is Robert Waixel’s report of the Privacy Laws & Business 15th Annual International Conference. Robert Waixel is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. He specialises in Computer Law in general and Data Protection Law and practice in particular….

Metatags – trade mark infringement and passing off

April 30, 1998

Read Rico Calleja of McDermott, Will & Emery on the Reed Case…

Anti-spamming Techniques to Combating Unwanted Spam

April 30, 1998

Dr Gerrie Ebersöhn looks at the things you can do to combat Spam….

Reversal of UDRP Decisions in South Africa

April 30, 1998

Domain names continue to be a fertile ground for disputes. Although this article focuses on South African laws, some of Dr Gerrie Ebersöhn’s analysis on UDRP decisions on domain names is of much wider application….

The Conversion of Sex.com

April 30, 1998

What may turn out to be a milestone in legal thinking about the Internet is currently awaiting decision by the California Supreme Court. It concerns the rights to “sex.com”, the domain name for a Web site offering links to a variety of sex-related online services. David Marchese explains the background to the case, which is not unsurprisingly murky. He feels that it is the ingenuity of those involved in the case that raises wider issues about how the information society and the law interact….