AHRC Research Centre for Studies in IP and Technology Law: Recent submissions
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The Internet: an introduction for lawyers
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 1999-01)Given the intense media coverage that the Internet has attracted over the past few years, one might reasonably argue that the Internet needs no introduction. It has successfully permeated into our everyday lives in a ... -
Trade Marks and Domain Names: There's a lot in a name
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2000-01)Over two years ago, it was predicted that the end of the Internet was nigh unless there were concerted efforts put into place to solve the problems associated with domain names and trade mark clashes. Certainly, the ... -
Copyright and the Internet
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2000-01)Paper presented by MacQueen, 2000. -
Archiving in the Digital Era
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2006-12)I'm neither a lawyer nor a librarian; what I'm doing in this paper is putting together pieces of knowledge from fields in which I have no expertise, so I make no promise that my knowledge is entirely accurate or entirely ... -
Open Access Licences
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2006-12)Presentation by Guadamuz about open access licences. -
Introduction to SCRIPT-ed Special Edition on Privacy and Technology
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2006)Introduction to a special edition of SCRIPT-ed online journal focussing on the regulation of privacy, in light of new and changing technologies. The edition discusses privacy as a human right, or as a commodity, and presents ... -
The Internet and Security: Do We need a Man With A Red Flag To Walk In Front of Computers?
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2007)This editorial focusses on the topic of internet security; its real, or perceived threats to individuals, and the regulatory framework in place to deal with cybercrime. Edwards suggests some obligations for computer owners ... -
From Child Porn to China in One Cleanfeed
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2006)In this editorial, Edwards discusses the implication of regulatory systems to block illegal content posted on the Internet, specifically child porn. Edwards considers the role of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), as ... -
Taking the “Personal” Out of Personal Data: Durant v FSA and its Impact on the Legal Regulation of CCTV
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2004)What is "personal data" as defined by European and UK data protection legislation? The article considers how the scope of “personal data” has been narrowed in the UK at least by the controversial Court of Appeal decision ... -
The Changing Shape of Cyberlaw
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2004)In the struggle to keep up with the deluge of cyberlaw case law, statutes, regulations, commentaries, opinions from the technical, economic and political presses, international treaty activity, European Directives, rounds ... -
Human rights: in the real world
(Oxford University Press, 2006)An analysis of the relevance of human rights to litigation and exploitation of intellectual property rights in the UK. The paper considers the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998, and other human rights instruments, ... -
Socially responsible intellectual property: a solution?
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2005)This article reviews the extent to which the present global IP system contains an inherent imbalance between the rights of IP owning corporations and IP users, and the public benefit. It also studies the potential relevance ... -
Intellectual Property, Competition and Human Rights: the past, the present and the future
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2005)Introduction to a special edition of the SCRIPTed journal, focussing on interplay between intellectual property, competition and human rights. The article discusses the significance of contributions to the journal by ... -
Trouble with Prime Numbers: DeCSS, DVD and the Protection of Proprietary Encryption Tools
(Universities of Warwick and Strathclyde, 2002)This essay deals with the cracking of DVD encryption and its further diffusion as a computer programme named DeCSS, which has been made available over the Internet in various formats, including t-shirts and a numerical ... -
Legal Challenges to Open Source Licenses
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2005)This paper will concentrate on presenting a legal analysis of two of the main challenges to open source software: SCO’s litigation and software patents. The paper discusses the validity of such challenges, their possible ... -
The Software Patent Debate
(Oxford University Press, 2006)The paper discusses the proposed European Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions and the subsequent debate that followed. Do software patents - as argued by policymakers' - result in increased ... -
Viral contracts or unenforcable documents? Contractual validity of copyleft licenses.
(Sweet and Maxwell, 2004)This paper asks the question of whether copyleft free software licences constitute valid legal contracts, in particular with regards to the fact that it may create obligations through a distribution chain. There is increasing ... -
PayPal: The Legal Status of P2P Payment Systems
(Elsevier, 2004)The paper discusses one of the most successful examples of the Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) model, found in consumer friendly payment systems such as PayPal. People who are exchanging goods through internet auctions need ... -
The new sharing ethic in Cyberspace
(Chigaco-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2002)The Internet is a new medium that allows every person who is connected to it to become a publisher and to be able to share ideas and information. This is a phenomenon that I call the “New Sharing Ethic”. This new sharing ... -
Open Science: Open source licenses in scientific research
(University of North Carolina School of Law, 2006)The article examines the validity of OSS (open source software) licenses for scientific, as opposed to creative works. It draws on examples of OSS licenses to consider their suitability for the scientific community and ...
