Cloud Computing: Competition Law Challenges
Simon Taylor and Lucas Bornico look at cloud computing from the perspective of competition law…
Telecoms & the Internet
SCL Meeting Report: Up Close and Personal
James Holyday reports back on the KM Group’s seminar held at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP (BLP) on 28 September 2011: ‘Up Close and Personal – Delivering the Right Information and Knowledge Management at the Point of Need’….
SCL Policy Forum Report: The New Shape of European Internet Regulation
Jaani Riordan gives a brief account of the many fascinating contributions to the SCL Policy Forum, held in London on 15 and 16 September….
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Offering a Mobile Payments Account across the EU
A team of authors from Hogan Lovells International LLP offer insights into the challenges to be overcome when seeking to establish a mobile payments service that operates in a number of EU jurisdictions…
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In Defence of the Cloud
Eduardo Ustaran shares his views on the reported tension between EU data protectionists and the Cloud….
Flowering Certainty and Floundering Doubt
The ECJ’s judgment in Interflora v Marks & Spencer settles nothing in itself. But I am not sure its floral undertones will create a perfume that smells like roses to M&S – I think they will be overwhelmed by the citrus base (ie lemons). Is that really how the judgment should be viewed? I am not sure it is that simple….
Interflora v Marks & Spencer: All Still to Play For or a Win for Interflora?
The Court of Justice claims to have clarified the scope of trade mark protection in the EU but has left the High Court to determine, inter alia, whether the use by Marks & Spencer within Google’s referencing service of keywords corresponding to the trade mark of its competitor Interflora undermined any of the ‘functions’ of that trade mark and whether it was ‘free-riding’….
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Internet and Data Privacy: The French/European Approach
Pierre Roquefeuil considers the use of personal data on the Web and the French and European mirroring regimes that prevent or punish an abusive or unauthorized use….
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Document Creation: The Americans Are Coming!
Tom Hiskey reflects on recent announcements about the entry of US document creation companies into the UK market…
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No xxxploitation Please
The new top-level domain, .xxx, opens for blocking applications on 7 September…