Anne Mizzi says that copyright owners should be considering what steps to take to protect the intellectual property in their books, speeches, audio, video and music in the face of recent moves by the likes of Google and Yahoo! to put a massive body of copyright works on the Internet….
Tim Travers is a consultant at e-Legal Logistics advising onknowledge management solutions and more efficient working practices. Email tim.travers@btconnect.com. Last month, two of the leading firms launched their virtual deal rooms on theWeb. Earlier this month, exhibitors at Legal IT 2000 launch the biggest range ofpractice, case, document and knowledge management systems and other electronicgizmos…
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Harry Small is the new Joint Chairman (Law) of SCL….
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Melonie Atraghji gives a brief account of one aspect of a recent domain name case, Global Projects Management Limited and another v Citigroup Inc and others, 17 October 2005….
David Hodson and David Allison aresolicitors with The Family Law Consortium, London. The authors acknowledge thehelp of Paul Terry of Crown Communications (email paulterry@crownbc.com,tel 0171 727 7272) who helped in the case and with this article, and who advisesa number of law firms on their IT.This article first appeared in Family Law (Jordans Publishing), and…
Ben Goodger is a Partner at Willoughby & Partners. He may becontacted at ben@iprights.com ‘A long time ago – maybe last Thursday…’ is how one of the Winnie thePooh stories starts. It’s a bit like that with any discussion of the world ofe-commerce. There are bound to be things in this article which are out-of-dateby…
Ewan McIntyre is head of the IP/IT Group of Edinburgh law firmRobson McLean WS (www.robson-mclean.co.uk). The Group gathered in the offices of Messrs Shepherd & Wedderburn WS,Edinburgh, for the 1999 AGM and Group meeting on 22 September 1999. The AGM waschaired by the Group’s Chairman, John Sibbald. Events The meeting opened with the formalities of…
Peter Sommer examines the lessons to be taken from two recent prosecutions under the Computer Misuse Act 1990….
Andrew Terrett is a legal information systems advisor withMasons Solicitors. He is also the author of The Internet – BusinessStrategies for Law Firms to be published by the Law Society later this year.He can be contacted at andrew.terrett@masons.com ‘Success in the marketplace today is directly proportional to theknowledge that an organisation can bring to bear,…