Key IT Law Developments in the Netherlands
Herald D.J. Jongen (Rotterdam) and Paul L. Reeskamp (Amsterdam) are partners at Loeff Claeys Verbeke, specialising in Information Technology Law…
Telecoms & the Internet
Developing IT Skills in a Law School
Antony Smith is IT Co-ordinator at the School of Law, King’s College London. He may be contacted at antony.smith@kcl.ac.uk…
Metatags and the Reed case – a few discordant notes?
The recent dispute between Reed Executive PLC and Reed Business Information Limited over the use of the mark REED on a job vacancy web site including its metatags and in related banner ads recently came before the High Court. Reed Executive triumphed and deservedly so in the view of the author, however, the reasoning employed in the case could in the view of the author result in some very unfair outcomes if followed in the future in the context of metatags….
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Transcript of SCL’s 30th Anniversary Lecture by Richard Christou
This is the edited transcript of Richard Christou’s lecture on the occasion of the SCL’s 30th Anniversary….
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M-legal
This tour of m-legal issues and technologies from Paul Lambert was also published in the Irish Law Society Gazette….
Developing Successful Privacy Relationships
This is Robert Waixel’s report of the Privacy Laws & Business 15th Annual International Conference. Robert Waixel is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. He specialises in Computer Law in general and Data Protection Law and practice in particular….
Metatags – trade mark infringement and passing off
Read Rico Calleja of McDermott, Will & Emery on the Reed Case…
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Anti-spamming Techniques to Combating Unwanted Spam
Dr Gerrie Ebersöhn looks at the things you can do to combat Spam….
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Reversal of UDRP Decisions in South Africa
Domain names continue to be a fertile ground for disputes. Although this article focuses on South African laws, some of Dr Gerrie Ebersöhn’s analysis on UDRP decisions on domain names is of much wider application….
The Conversion of Sex.com
What may turn out to be a milestone in legal thinking about the Internet is currently awaiting decision by the California Supreme Court. It concerns the rights to “sex.com”, the domain name for a Web site offering links to a variety of sex-related online services. David Marchese explains the background to the case, which is not unsurprisingly murky. He feels that it is the ingenuity of those involved in the case that raises wider issues about how the information society and the law interact….