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 …
In Clarkson Plc v Person or Persons Unknown [2018] EWHC 417 (QB), the court granted the Claimant’s application for a final injunction by way of default judgment in the absence of a hearing. Summary of the Facts The Claimant, Clarkson Plc, is London based shipping company and the Defendant(s) are …
A director’s service agreement is a contract between a director and the company which specifies the precise terms of the director’s relationship with that company. Many tech companies, whether large or small, employ key people to act as directors. In this role these people are entrusted to run the …
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