Looking for legal risks in Cloud Computing
The notion of software applications or data hosted on 3rd party internet servers has been around for years. Anyone heard of Hotmail or Gmail? However in the [...]
Legal Issues in Mobile App Development
Whilst corporate lawyers read this stuff in their sleep, the average solo mobile app developer or startup studio (and often their clients) have less appreciation of the [...]
Death of the perpetual software licence?
Whether you're a lawyer drafting software sales license agreements or reviewing software license-in procurement, one definite trend that is growing is the gradual disappearance of the perpetual [...]
New Asia Pacific Privacy and Data Protection laws for 2013 and 2014
If you didn’t already know, the last week of April was global Privacy Awareness Week. Quite a few corporate counsel are going to have to plan for [...]
Open source contracting?
In the tech industry, the constant debate between the merits of proprietary software vs open source is well known. As most lawyers know, legal contract drafting is [...]
#cuttingedge….Market Disclosure via Social Media – the APAC view
The recent tweets of Netflix’s CEO have prompted the US Securities and Exchange Commission to formally acknowledge the use of social media such as Twitter as an [...]