Abstract The current policy vision for Europe’s digital future centres around facilitating the availability of data by means access, sharing, and portability rights. In existing legal framework, such rights are already foreseen in different instruments. actual practice, however, (horizontal) sharing is governed first place contracts. Currently, well-established business practices non-mandatory ...

A major challenge facing all law-enforcement and intelligence-gathering organizations is accurately and efficiently analyzing the growing volumes of crime data. Cybercrime refers to any crime that involves a computer and network, where computer may or may not play an instrumental part in the commission of the crime. Detection and investigation of cybercrime can likewise be difficult because bus...

Is there a connection between state-law tort reform and the explosive growth of U.S. intellectual property (IP) litigation? The literature has established that the number of tort claims in states with tort reform has gone down. How do personal injury (PI) plaintiff lawyers deal with the decrease in the demand for their services? Could a significant number of them end up shifting their practice ...

Communications Interception is an essential part of law enforcement used by authorised government agencies to investigate criminal activities. With the growth of IP based applications and new IP technologies such as mobile IP, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will find themselves increasingly obliged to provide interception capabilities. IP interception is usually done with expensive hardware ...

Intellectual Property (IP) has taken a prominent place on the web. Today’s organisations need to know the ways in which their websites can be the target of costly IP litigation. Organisations also need to know how to manage and protect their own IP that they expose through their web presence. This paper provides an overview of the legal risks associated with IP on the web. Managing such risks b...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 313 I. THE CONTEXT AND LAW OF INS ........................................... 317 A. AHN and the Declining Newspaper Industry .................... 319 B. Theflyonthewall and New Challenges to the Hot News Doctrine .............................................................................. 321 II....