Abstract This paper considers the UK Intellectual Property Office’s proposal to align online offences with offline offences to 10 years imprisonment. It analyses copyright cases since 1999, in a bid to determine the principles applied by UK courts when applying criminal sanctions. The aim is to discuss the fairness of the proposal and to question… Read more » about Dinusha Mendis “Copyright and Punishment”

Abstract This paper evaluates the existing legal regime that regulates the disclosure of software interface information for the purposes of interoperability, and suggests an amendment to the EU Software Directive to allow for the dissemination of interface information obtained by reverse engineering. The recommendation is based on the concept that software interfaces require different considerations… Read more » about Sally Weston “Promoting interoperability”