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Social media is huge.  By the end of 2011, 37.4 million UK adults were using Facebook regularly, 32.1 million were using YouTube, 15.5 million had Twitter accounts, 7.9 million had LinkedIn accounts and 6.7 million had Flickr accounts.  And that’s just the adults. But social media services and traditional businesses have an uneasy relationship.  One […]

Perhaps because author agreements last a long time, many publishers use the same standard contract for a long period. Many years may pass by between comprehensive contract reviews. If you are a publisher, and your contracts are starting to look a little archaic, then this post should help you. It highlights some of the key […]

Let’s suppose you’ve published a book by a new author.  You didn’t produce a contract document at the time, or perhaps you did produce a contract document, but it was never signed.  You agreed the basics – advance, royalty rates and so on – in an exchange of emails.  And perhaps you’ve paid the advance […]

Should you include an indemnity in your IT contract?  And if so, what sort of indemnity?  Indemnities in IT contracts come in many different shapes and sizes.  Whether it is appropriate to include an indemnity in a given contract will depend upon a range of factors.  In this post, I explore some of these factors. […]

There is no copyright in a website as such, but copyright will usually protect some or all of the elements of a website.  Copyright protects specific classes of “work”.  Those classes are enumerated in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.    Section 1(1) provides: Copyright is a property right which subsists in accordance with this […]

There are two aspects to photographic copyright: photographs may be protected by copyright, but may also infringe copyright.  A photograph of a painting could infringe the copyright in the painting, and a photograph of a photograph could likewise infringe.  That much is well-known to most photographers. The position with respect to photographs of other artefacts […]

These online law resources have been chosen to help you to research, at a general level, some of the more important legal issues affecting websites and the internet. They focus on English and EU law issues, and cover the following subjects: accessibility, copyright, criminal law, data protection, defamation, domain names, ecommerce law, emarketing law and […]

One of the great things about copyright is the flexibility of licensing.  Copyright licences can be for a particular right, for a particular area, for a particular period, and subject to almost any conditions you can dream up.   As a junior lawyer involved in a music industry contract review exercise, I remember seeing a licence […]

This article highlights some of the key features of the law governing the use of email for marketing purposes.  It considers only the position under English law. Although much of the UK legislation relating to email marketing is EU-inspired, the laws across the EU are not properly harmonized. The position under US law is also […]

The web has changed radically since 2005.  We’ve seen the rise of some websites, the demise of others; the evolution of new business models and the senescence of others; new languages, new technologies and new platforms have driven a revolution in web culture; and the principle that gives unity to that revolution is the principle […]