Michele Boote is an Associate in Theodore Goddard’s IT Litigation Group and acted for GE Information Services Limited at both the trial and the appeal….
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Data Protection Update
Rosemary Jay is a Senior Consultant atMasons (Manchester) and was formerly Legal Adviser to the Data ProtectionRegistrar. She may be contacted at rosemary.jay@masons.com Rosemary Jay Proposed Orders The Home Office has published a further seven draftorders under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 98) which are available on itsWeb site at www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ccpd. The proposed orders…
Book Reviews
Making New Law in Scotland – Digital Law and the New Parliament
The Scottish Group’s ground-breaking conference on 31 January drew the largest attendance of any similar event in the Society’s history….
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Building the Links between Law
SCL’s ‘Free the Law’ campaign has proven the need for better access to law….
Achievement and Promise
This is the text of Professor Chris Reed’s Joint Chairmen’s Report
to the SCL AGM on 24 January 2000….
From the Editor’s Chair
An insert for this issue is a veritable call to arms, lavishly disguised asan invitation to join SCL working groups at the initial launch and planningevent on 27th March. I shall not be tempted by the rhetoric of ‘Ask not whatyou can do for your Society’ but stick to two simple points. First, SCL can…
DRM: SCL Internet Interest Group Response to APIG
The SCL Internet Interest Group has submitted a detailed response to the call from the All Parliamentary Internet Group for views on digital rights management….
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Developments in the Protection of DRM
Steve Holmes summarises the most recent cases on DRM and compares the relevant legislation in the UK, the US and Australia….
Digital Libraries
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….