Posts under ‘commercial’

In this post I’m going to offer some information that I think might be quite useful to you when you’re establishing a new business or product. You’re likely to be thinking about a name, commissioning a website and logo to launch it, and considering how you will market it and so on. Relatively few people [...]

In business, contracts and agreements are part of daily life.  Consulting a lawyer to draft all your agreements can be expensive, so in practice, only bigger businesses have the resources to get legal advice every time they need an agreement. As an entrepreneur you will find it necessary to document many of your own agreements, [...]

Key to Apple’s surging popularity have been the ease of use of its products and software, and seamless integration between its devices and services. Arguably unique in the personal computer industry, Apple exercises strict controls over every element of its product line.  This control over both the hardware and software used in its computers, peripherals [...]

Websites, iPad apps, accounting systems, and the software running on your home wireless router are all the result of an often considerable investment of time, money, skill and effort.  In return, their creators are typically rewarded with a bundle of intellectual property rights.  One of the most important of these is copyright, which protects the [...]

We have written previously on copyright holders’ efforts to effect the removal of sites linking to or hosting infringing content, and also on new measures being introduced by the Digital Economy Act, which provide for injunctive relief where a website “has been, is being or is likely to be used for or in connection with [...]

Tweet ups are when we take our online relationships offline and meet the faces behind the avatars. There is an appetite for more regular tweet ups so, later in this blog, I’ll mention some ideas for a trial run of regular London tweet ups. @Legalaware who was very quick off the mark reporting the recent [...]

Reading Legal Bizzle’s very interesting article Revolting pedants made me  uncomfortable as he concluded:  “And I’m happy to say it loud: I’m a pedant, and I’m proud”. Much as I want to agree with Legal Bizzle, I can’t do so given my strong dislike for pedantry.  The word has connotations of officious types who are sticklers [...]

Twitter is a great medium for stimulating debate, and an excellent forum for meeting new and like minded people. In terms of relationships,  Twitter is essentially a forum for meeting others.  You have to take that virtual meeting off line if you want to begin to create a real relationship.  As they say on Twitter [...]

270,000 businesses start up in Britain every year, and the new Start Up Britain intitiative hopes to promote entrepreneurship by offering reading material, business resources, discounts and a variety of other assistance.  Some legal resources are also available, to help new businesses steer a clear path through swathes of regulation, manage risk, and to offer [...]

While a single person can design, host, and administer a website, there are often a whole host of people responsible for any given piece of content on the internet: firstly, there is the actual author of the material; then there will be an ISP who gives the author access to the internet; there will likely [...]