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By law, when a company becomes insolvent, then the director of that company will have a duty not to the shareholders, but to their creditors. This means that your first priority as a director is now to recoup your creditors' money, as well as acting, to the best of your ability, in a way which does …
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The UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee recently highlighted how Facebook misused its customers' private information, breaking UK law and placing data protection at risk in future. Read the report here.This has seen Facebook breach a number of data protection policies across the …
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In April this year, the US Court of Appeals (9th Cir.) ruled in the so-called “monkey selfie copyright dispute” that animals cannot own copyright to their works. The ruling settled ongoing controversy over whether selfies taken by an Indonesian macaque monkey in 2011 are the intellectual property …
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Software developers may jealously guard their source code, from time-to-time it may need to be disclosed to others. For example, a developer may be required to disclose source code to another developer who is quoting for the provision of development services; alternatively, source code may need to …
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On 25th May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) comes into force and this will have an impact on the way any company manages data about European citizens. Implementing the GDPR could have significant resource implications, especially for larger and more complex organisations. You …
