Brian Harley, Philip Nolan, Liam Ó Móráin and Mark Leyden tease out, from the current state of the emerging technologies, what legal challenges those involved in the development of the Semantic Web and its applications need to be aware of. They also give lawyers who are not familiar with the Semantic Web a glimpse of the potential and pitfalls that these exciting new technologies present….
Laurence Eastham briefly reports a case where Google has defeated an attempt to land it with liability for allegedly defamatory content appearing in the snippets that come with its search results….
Richard Morgan reports on the lecture by Professor Daniel J Solove, Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, at a joint SCL/Oxford Internet Institute Meeting on 25 June 2009…
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Susan Barty, Isabel Davies and Phillip Carnell report on the High Court ruling in L’Oréal v eBay [2009] EWHC 1094 (Ch) that eBay was not liable for the sale of counterfeit L’Oréal products on its UK Web site. The case is the latest round in ongoing litigation in a number of jurisdictions….
What is cloud computing, and why does it matter? Bill Jones offers his insight, explains what IT lawyers have to consider when dealing with the concept and examines its legal risks….
The UK has a notoriously low level of understanding of the politics of the EU and of EU institutions and the way they operate. Monica Horten helps dispel some of the mystery surrounding the links between the Telecoms Package, 3-strikes and Amendment 138 – and explains why it all matters….
Do the judgments in L’Oréal v eBay and Interflora v Marks & Spencer signal a major change in the use of trade marks in e-commerce? They may look like damp squibs but they may turn out to be explosive….
The High Court judgment on the adwords battle in this case was published on 22 May….
Andrew Harbison and Pearse Ryan discuss the topics of data leakage and data compromise. They ask the question: how can leakage and compromise be prevented. If that is not possible, how can their consequences be managed or mitigated?…
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A group of prominent football clubs have made a consolidated application to WIPO to obtain the transfer of domain names. The ruling on the use of consolidated applications is of real importance….