This Practice Note highlights the key legal and commercial issues for a buyer when looking to buy a software business. This particularly focuses on the technology and...
This Practice Note on data protection and business-to-business cloud computing, including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as...
This Practice Note introduces cloud computing concepts and describes key principles underpinning the cloud market in the UK. It covers the following: • History of cloud •...
This Practice Note considers the following legal and commercial issues relating to cloud services: • Due diligence • Contract documents • Service description • Service...
Frequently, a supplier or customer will use a set of standard terms developed for domestic trade in its home country. When that business deals with a party in another...
This Practice Note examines legal and practical issues relating to the copying of software. It sets out software copyright protections under copyright law to combat...
Corporate transactions are a frequent feature of a lawyer’s life and can be one of the most challenging. In addition to dealing with the specific features of the...
This Practice Note explains the legal and practical issues relevant to digital rights management and discusses the extent to which technical devices and other protection...
This Practice Note considers the following commercial and legal issues arising from the use of free and open source software: • What is free and open source software? •...
In today’s world where the Internet is the mainstay of business activity, cloud computing allows us to access documents and store huge amounts of data without a server of...
A free and open source software (FOSS) strategy and policy (with associated processes to ensure that the policy is followed) is part of any well-structured business...
Click here to download the latest cloud computing 2019 report, published by Getting the Deal Through. Jurisdictions covered The following jurisdictions are covered in...
Although its popularity has declined in recent years in favour of permissive licences such as MIT, a significant amount of software remains licensed under the GPL 2.0—see...
This Practice Note considers legal and commercial issues involved in the organisation and running of a hackathon. It covers: • What is a hackathon? • The aim of the...
Mobile applications (apps) have become as ubiquitous as the smartphones, tablets and other mobile computing devices that support them. With the growth in the popularity...
This Practice Note explains the extent to which software formats can be protected as intellectual property rights, and also briefly discusses the issues relevant to open...
