October 29, 2010

It’s easy to forget about things as you focus on the look and feel of the website and a good privacy policy could quite easily be one of them. But a privacy policy is essential for your website, as data protection and other...

November 1, 2010

In September, the Swiss Federal Court ruled that an anti-piracy company in Switzerland, Logistep, must cease collecting the IP addresses of users sharing files on peer-to-peer networks.

IP addresses are used to route...

November 2, 2010

Yesterday in our November newsletter we mentioned the Legal Services Act (sign up to receive future editions using the form on the right), and how from October 2011 the Act will allow non-law businesses to own a stake in law...

One aspect of online business that is particularly difficult to grapple with is copyright, be it, use of content from other sites, or copyright relating to photographs and images or other issues.  The misinformation that...

November 8, 2010

Copyright is a hot topic at the moment, especially following the PM’s announcement that UK copyright law is to be reviewed with a view to potentially incorporating fair use provisions along similar lines to those...

December 7, 2010

The candid belief that Google is just a messenger bringing good and bad content to surfers and concerned only with one criteria, ‘relevance’, is dissipating.It was once the copyright owner’s duty, not...

December 15, 2010

While I’ve previously written about the legal requirements regarding Data Protection and Email Marketing, this is about email marketing following contacts you meet physically when networking.
You will exchange cards...

November 23, 2010

A more technical post this afternoon, but extremely noteworthy.

The Internet has become a significant part of everyday life, and continues to grow at a blistering pace.  As a result of this growth, critical changes to the...

December 3, 2010

Those with their fingers on the pulse of the legal services industry are predicting significant changes in the marketplace.  Whether this shift is down to the recession, technological developments, regulatory changes, or all...

December 13, 2010

Hargreaves Review
In a message to the Hargreaves Review team last week Jeremy Phillips suggested a few practitioners, including myself, whose perspective may be of interest to Tom Loosemore.   Although I had...