Net Neutrality Debate
Paul Ganley and Ben Allgrove explain what it is all about, and why it matters….
Telecoms & the Internet
Tackling Crime in Cyberspace: A Legal Issue?
Helena Beasley’s essay is the winner of this year’s SCL Essay prize….
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Blogging’s Biggest Risk? – Being Blogless in the Blogosphere
Blogging’s Biggest Risk? – Being Blogless in the Blogosphere…
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Staking out a Wider Domain
Mike Gardner comments on Tesco v Elogicom, which involved a battle over domain names incorporating the word “Tesco”….
Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World
Laurence Eastham reviews a new book from Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu. OUP. 226 pp. £16.99 hardback. ISBN 0 – 19 – 515266-2….
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News Snippets
An alert for readers to just some of the news items that were covered on the SCL Web site in March and April….
The Next Ten Years
This is an edited transcript of the 2006 SCL Lecture given by Professor Richard Susskind OBE, which has created enormous interest. This version covers only four of the six headings covered in the Lecture itself….
Predictions 2006: A Miscellany
This is a selection of the predictions on the SCL Web site made by leading legal IT experts and IT lawyers….
Trade Marks, Search Engines and Fair Play
The Internet has opened up new channels of communication and ways of doing business. It has generated new possibilities for businesses to compete effectively in the open market. It has also created new ways in which companies (and individuals) can engage in commercial mischief such as exploiting the property rights of others without authorisation. In…
Generic v Specific Software
The more I researched and considered the issue, the more convinced I became (as I thought I would) that indeed considerably more can be done with generic products than most firms probably appreciate and that this is going to increase steadily over the coming years. This is a debate whose time has truly come and…