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Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season

Comment Who is the real loser, asks lawyer Sian Croxon - the trademark holder, the consumer or the law itself? This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search terms containing trademarks. If you're like me, you've never given much thought to...

Tags: keywords, google, search engines, trademarks

[30 Apr 2008]

Microsoft earmarks $1.5bn for Yahoo! staff

News lawyer noted Microsoft had informed the company it "earmarked $1.5bn for employee retention at Yahoo! Microsoft plans to set aside $1.5bn for employee retention at Yahoo! should it succeed in its unsolicited buyout bid for the internet search...

Tags: staff, yahoo, microsoft

[30 Apr 2008]

Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?

Comment What the code has to say about online customers paying for fraudulent transactions on their accounts is worth reading carefully, says lawyer Duncan Pithouse. The banks and building societies have just signed up to a new code.

Tags: online banking, fraud, e-crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…

Comment I love the lawyer speak.it's not clear how successful these efforts will be". Social networking safety plan Social networks to stamp out sex offenders This may have good intentions but will be easy to bypass.

Tags: isp, bbc, government, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

How will your deal weather a downturn?

Comment A careful look at key aspects of existing contracts would not go amiss, suggests lawyer Margaret Harvey. What will happen to outsourcing if budgets are trimmed and belts tightened? Economic forecasts by consultancy Capital Economics suggest the UK...

Tags: contracts, downturn, suppliers, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Split-Dollar Life Insurance

whitepaper Many companies are reviewing the impact of the recently enacted Sarbanes-Oxley Act on executive loan arrangements. This paper has a more specific focus in that it reviews the act's provisions for its potential impact on split-dollar life insurance.

Tags: law and government, oxley, life, sarbanes oxley

[10 Apr 2008]

Disclosure After Sarbanes-Oxley

whitepaper In the wake of the recent reports of accounting irregularities at public companies and in an effort to restore investor confidence, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which was signed by President George W.

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, accounting, officers, public companies

[10 Apr 2008]

Vendors hype up compliance fears

Comment Expert opinion from lawyer Stewart James: Navigating the landscape will require some gut instinct, common sense - and above all, a good lawyer. The word strikes fear into the heart of even the hardened executive.

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, data protection, compliance

[08 Apr 2008]

Box-tickers risk serious data breaches

Comment Expert opinion from lawyer Stewart James: Life would be simple if curing security headaches were just a matter of buying some new technology. In reality, good security requires fundamental organisational change, says Danny Bradbury

Tags: risk, data leaks, security, compliance

[28 Mar 2008]

Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?

Comment But organisations would be wrong to pin all their hopes on it, warns lawyer Stewart James. High-profile data breaches and new laws have put encryption back in the limelight. Earlier this month, Westminster's Joint Committee on Human Rights...

Tags: data protection, companies act, encryption, security

[27 Mar 2008]

Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?

Comment But legal liability cannot rest solely on ISPs' shoulders, argues lawyer Simon Levine. Politicians are threatening ISPs with penalties if illegal downloading doesn't stop. To do so would undermine a central tenet of ecommerce law.

Tags: law, isps, downloads, piracy

[22 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense

Comment But what does the decision really mean to those involved in developing and deploying software, asks lawyer Richard Taylor. As a patent lawyer, I welcome this ruling. A key court ruling has cranked up the debate.

Tags: patent, high court, software, law

[13 Feb 2008]

silicon.com Classics: 'Nigerian' money scam - What happens when you reply?

News These emails usually purporting to be from a banker or lawyer offering the recipient a slice of some deceased former president's fortune for laundering the money through their account. In the first of a new weekly series looking back at the classic...

Tags: scam, 419, nigerian, emails

[04 Feb 2008]

Law firm beefs up search power

Case Study Speaking to silicon.com, Jane Bradbury, knowledge management director at FFW said: "We're in the business of handling information, knowledge, advising clients and I'm very much of the belief that when a client instructs us they're instructing not...

Tags: web 2.0, search, legal, lawyer

[18 Jan 2008]

Commons' committee calls for reckless-data-loss laws

News Jonathan Armstrong, technology lawyer with Eversheds, said the government should take care not to rush through laws as it had done with the Dangerous Dogs Act. MPs have called for the reckless loss of computer data and personal information to be...

Tags: data loss, government, security, law

[03 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 26.10.07

Round-Up I think that no one has figured out the perfect formula for it," he said, raising his voice (we imagine) over the laughter as a Microsoft contract lawyer helped a Facebook marketing manager to photocopy her bottom.

Tags: vint cerf, wi-fi, iphone, facebook

[26 Oct 2007]

Jobs to take the stand in options backdating case

News Apple CEO Steve Jobs will have to appear before federal investigators as part of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) lawsuit against Nancy Heinen, Apple's former head lawyer, Bloomberg has reported.

Tags: sec, stock options, backdating, steve jobs

[21 Sep 2007]

IT charity employs flash mob tactics

News Paul Renney, a lawyer at Campbell Hooper and Byte Night board member, told silicon.com: "I'm very positive about this year's event. A flash mob descended on Potters Field, next to City Hall in London, this morning - not to protest against mayor Ken...

Tags: flash mob, byte night

[06 Sep 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 31.08.07

Round-Up Even then, this is broken down into part lawyer, part technician, part politician and all businessperson. If you thought that CIO just stood for 'chief information officer' then you are clearly a lunatic of the highest order and a danger to...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[31 Aug 2007]

Eight roles the CIO must play

News The research paper said: "Managing an international infrastructure requires the CIO to be part lawyer, part technician, part politician and all businessperson. If you thought CIO stood just for 'chief information officer' you might be in for a bit...

Tags: skills, cio

[28 Aug 2007]

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