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Lords ruling reduces contracts' certainty, says expert
A landmark House of Lords ruling will undermine the certainty of contracts and
could make it more expensive to take cases over contract interpretation to
court, according to a contract law expert.
02/07/2009
No Dr No rights for Bond owners, says EU court
The company behind the James Bond film franchise cannot stop another company
from registering Dr No as a trade mark because the film title is an indication
of artistic, and not commercial, origin, an EU court has said.
01/07/2009
Pirate Bay to be heart of legal content distribution network, say new owners
The world's biggest distributor of links to copyright infringing material is to
be bought by a software entrepreneur and turned into a legitimate business, the
site has announced. The Pirate Bay has agreed to be acquired for £4.8 million.
01/07/2009
Usability and security gurus agree that masked passwords should go
Websites should stop masking passwords as users type because it does not improve
security and makes websites harder to use, according to two of the technology
world's leading thinkers.
29/06/2009
Outsourcing contracts under greater scrutiny, survey finds
One in four businesses that outsource are planning to renegotiate the terms of
their outsourcing contracts in response to the economic downturn, according to a
survey of 200 businesses in the UK.
26/06/2009
Regulators push for fairer, easier data protection compliance in outsourcing deals
The European Commission should make sure that outsourcing providers who process
personal data are bound by consistent rules irrespective of whether they are
based inside or outside the EU, data protection watchdogs have said.
01/07/2009
OUT-LAW Radio: TV winners
02/07/2009: We look at the success of the TV formats industry - all the
more amazing because the ideas at its heart enjoy little legal protection
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