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What is Metadata?

Put shortly, metadata is “data about data”. Unfortunately, that definition tends to invite more questions than it may answer. The question of what constitutes metadata and how it is retained...Read more

David Carrington
Corporate Counsel, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Australia

Alida Vandewiele
Legal Counsel, Bombora Technologies, Australia
Big Data & Intellectual Propert: Strategic Alignment for Commercial Success
We are currently experiencing a ‘Big Data revolution’. Technology and smart devices are enabling us to create, store, share, and use data in ways previously never imagined. At the same...Read more

Karen Hallenstein
Supervising Counsel, Intellectual Property, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia
Big Data & Intellectual Property: Strategic Alignment for Commercial Success
We are currently experiencing a ‘Big Data revolution’. Technology and smart devices are enabling us to create, store, share, and use data in ways previously never imagined. At the same...Read more

Jane Perrier
General Counsel for Intellectual Property, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia
The Modernisation of Insurance Law in the United Kingdom
Insurance law in the UK has been modernised by the recent consumer and commercial insurance law reforms set out in the Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 (“CIDRA”) and...Read more

Ben Foat
Group General Counsel, Post Office, UK
A Comparative Analysis of Albanian Banking Privacy Legislation
Legislation on the protection of banking information (banking secrecy) was established in Albania in early 1990. The rationale behind this legal framework was motivated by economic factors, i.e. the flow...Read more
Information Leakage and Other Threat: What is Internal Audit's Role?
Effective information management and security remains one of the most important aspects of every business entity. It is interesting to notice that if you “Google” the words “Data Leakage” more...Read more
Nikolaos Dounis
Cluster Internal Control & Compliance Manager, Imperial Tobacco Group, Greece
The CMA and FCA. What do we think of it so far?
In any assessment of how these two new regulators are performing, it's necessary to consider why the Government bothered to reform the system at all and what was it trying...Read more

Lee Callaghan
General Counsel International Markets. Group Competition Counsel, Aviva, UK
Understanding and Negotiating Software as a Service (SaaS) Agreements

Software as a Service or SaaS is an important and growing segment of the commercial software market. Software as a Service can be viewed as a subcategory of the somewhat...Read more
Justin Nelsen
Vice President, Managing Assistant General Counsel, CA, Inc., dba CA Technologies, USA
Bringing Fairness to FCPA Settlements: Protecting the Corporate Form through Respondeat Inferior Subsidiary Liability
The 2012 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) resource guide to the FCPA (Guide) suggests two theories for imposing liability on an issuer for...Read more

Peter Manda
Attorney, Peter Manda, Esq., USA
Intellectual Property Work in Key Figures

Intellectual property (IP) has always been, and will increasingly be, a critical success factor for a wide range of industries. Considerable efforts go into creating and safeguarding IP and this...Read more

Maik Ebersoll
Head of Legal Operations, Linde AG, Germany
Andreas Bong
Managing Partner, Otto Henning, Germany