Category Archives: Blogs

Open Source Software: the Affero GPL, the ‘as a Service’ world and the CAL

As far back as 2013, code audit provider Black Duck observed that “if software is eating the world, open source is eating the software world”.[i] Since then OSS has continued

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Indirect Software Licensing: SAP v Diageo – 3 Years Later

Contractual language to define the scope of permitted software use and to determine charging basis may have been agreed years ago. That language now finds itself applied to new technologies

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Google v Oracle: The Copyright Case of the Decade

We billed Google v Oracle as the biggest item on the software legal agenda for 2020 in our ‘Trends in IT Law: looking ahead to 2020’ blog post back in

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Serious Cybernetics: The Commission’s AI White Paper, the US government’s AI Memo

1. Introduction This blog looks at the legal aspects of the regulatory framework for AI set out in the European Commission’s AI White Paper, published  on 19 February 2020. We

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Trends in information technology law: looking ahead to 2020

Trends in information technology law: looking ahead to 2020 This piece looks ahead to what we might expect as IT law developments in 2020. As we hit the new decade

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Final European Banking Authority guidelines on outsourcing came into effect 30th September

In February this year the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its Final Report on its Guidelines on outsourcing for financial services organisations. After 30th September, all outsourcing arrangements which are

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Data trusts and frameworks are gaining traction and on the cusp of widespread adoption

This piece looks at data trusts and data trust frameworks. Richard Kemp, Kemp IT Law[1] Data trusts are gaining traction as an innovative way to facilitate trusted data sharing. The

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Reducing Patent Risks at the Edge

As the cloud expands, so cloud users’ latent patent risks grow. Digital transformation is propelling business cloud-wards at prodigious rates: by 2025, 60% of computing will be in the cloud.[i]

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Pioneer Profile: Richard Kemp – Kemp IT Law

Spiranti, a website bringing together practical insights and ideas on how to innovate from across professions, recently interviewed Richard Kemp to discuss the impact IT has on a changing legal market.

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