Google Keywords: First UK Action?
Interflora is reported to be suing Marks & Spencer and others for buying the Interflora adword from Google…
Telecoms & the Internet
Predictions 2009: Part 2
Following on from Predictions Preview, 17 new predictions on IT law, IT applications and the way technology will impact on business and society. Everything but next week’s lottery numbers from Birley, Briskman, Burgess, Davis and Onwusah, Harbison, Haslam, Jones, Katz, Kaye, Marsden, Morrison, Newson, Speed, Spencer, Trimmer, Tuke and Uebergang….
The Hand of God Slaps the Hand of Google
Mark Weston reviews the successful moves to force search engines in Argentina to filter the results of searches on named individuals…
Getting the Best from RSS
Alex Newson discusses how lawyers can make the most of RSS….
Does Street View Have Street Cred?
Mark Weston considers the many privacy and data protection issues associated with Google’s new Street View project….
SCL Podcast: Legislating for Web 2.0 – Preparing for the Communications Act?
SCL’s 3rd Annual Policy Forum – audio recordings and speaker’s slides available to download….
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Profiling Web Users – Some Intellectual Property Problems
In this highly original analysis, Nicholas Bohm and Joel Harrison take a fresh look, from a very different angle, at the issues that arise from Web profiling. Does it infringe Web site owners’ IPR?…
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The End of Lawyers’ IT?
Alastair Morrison updates readers on his views on SaaS and considers the possibility that cloud computing will transform the way in which lawyers buy and use IT….
Schadenfreude Fest: The Google Chrome Licence Glitch
The terms and conditions of use of the new Web browser from Google have been amended following a negative reaction to a first draft that would have caught all rights to users’ content. Laurence Eastham guesses that SCL members will be full of sympathy….
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What is Downloading?
A recent criminal case leads Laurence Eastham to wonder about what constitutes downloading, and he looks for suggestions from SCL members….