The IFCLA Conference, IT Law Challenges in a Changing World: Global, Virtual, Open & Outsourced takes place in Paris on 5 and 6 June 2008. The deadline for the call for papers is 5 September but, whether presenting a paper attracts you or not, it is already time to start planning your trip….
Land Registry Survey on Gateways
SCL encourages its members to respond to an online Land Registry survey on eConveyancing and XML Gateways…
SCL Elects First Fellows
SCL announces the election of its first Fellows of the Society for Computers and Law…
Grants from SCL
SCL has announced that it is to make grants available for research…
June / July 2007 Online Course Online Course
(Course code HW/SFCL28 – 1 hour)…
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GPL v3 Released 29 June
The Free Software Federation announced the release of the new version of the GNU General Public License version 3 on 29 June….
Limitation of Liability: An Update
Limitation of liability clauses are always keenly negotiated and are often one of the last clauses to be agreed. A string of recent cases provide guidance to lawyers about how these clauses should be drafted and incorporated into a contract. Jimmy Desai offers a summary of some recent cases and an explanation as to how each may be useful to those drafting such clauses….
Collecting Personal Information Using Web sites
Helen Hart summarises and comments on the latest ICO advice….
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Editorial
The statistic that stayed with me for far too long this week was that approximately 1 in 25 visitors to Wikipedia edit or contribute. It seemed extraordinary that a resource that was used as the major reference source for everything from pub arguments to geography homework could have so many committed and dedicated persons associated…
OGC Changes to ICT Guidance
See the latest changes to the Guidance which have now been released….