Cloud Computing and the Law: Still Shrouded in Uncertainty?
David Chaplin reports on the SCL London Group’s meeting of 8 February 2010, which focused on cloud computing…
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Telecoms & the Internet
Microsoft: Unbundling the Browser
Stephen Hornsby and Owen Thomas ask if Microsoft’s commitments to unbundle its browser will make a difference, and whether the European Commission really care if they do it or not…
FreeLegalWeb … dreaming on
Nick Holmes describes the origins of a dream and the steps taken to turn it into a reality…
How To Make Bad Law
Professor Chris Reed draws some lessons from the experience of law-making in the computing and communications sector. He suggests that a focus on technical precision has given us some pretty bad law….
Criminal Prosecution and Online Copyright Infringement
Mikko Manner considers the utilization of criminal prosecution against copyright infringement in the context of online distribution services by specific reference to The Pirate Bay…
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The British Problem (with computer program patents)
Jonathan Palmer reviews an uncomfortable history and looks to an interesting future, while creating his very own patentability scale….
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Lord Mandelson waters down controversial Clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill
UK government publishes amendments to Digital Economy Bill that significantly water down the powers proposed to be given to the Secretary of State to enable amendment of UK copyright law….
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Do We Need a Constitution for the Information Age?
Mark Turner examines the defects in existing systems for agreeing international obligations of the kind that are vital to the flowering of the information age. The disintermediation of government leads him to suggest a constitutional convention for the information age….
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Data Protection: The New Technical and Political Environment
Ian Brown paints a picture of a rapidly changing data protection landscape, with the dangers arising from technical revolutions and political adjustments in the foreground…
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Predictions 2010: Technology & Strategy for Lawyers
We asked experts in various fields for their take on likely developments for 2010 and beyond. The predictions are published on the SCL Web site. This is a selection of predictions relating to law firm management, legal software, strategy and the like….
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