This review article gives a brief overview of some of the key legal challenges the OpenScienceLink, http://opensciencelink.eu (hereafter OSL) project faced with publishing biomedical research data online on an open access and re-use basis. Firstly, we give an overview of some of the key privacy challenges that the OSL project faced. Secondly, we analyse the intellectual property challenges that...

The concept of choice, which has been inherent in the rehabilitation process since its inception, has evolved into legal mandates and ethical challenges for rehabilitation professionals during the latter part of the 20th century. This article identifies the ethical and legal issues related to choice, summarizes a pilot project on rehabilitation counselors' perceptions of choice, and provides re...

This paper proposes a new paradigm for dealing with scientific knowledge in general, and publications in particular. The paradigm aims at changing the way in which knowledge is produced, disseminated, evaluated, and consumed. A formal model is proposed and the issues of credit attribution, copyrights and licensing, which are crucial for the success of any new model, are addressed.

Internationalisation and the expansion of the European Union have created a situation where the need for legal information from foreign countries and from different legislative levels is greater than ever before. This information is increasingly becoming available in digital form due to the increase in legal information repositories on the Internet. In spite of this, users of European legal inf...

An area presenting new opportunities for both legitimate business, as well as criminal organizations, is Cloud computing. This work gives a strong background in current digital forensic science, as well as a basic understanding of the goal of Law Enforcement when conducting digital forensic investigations. These concepts are then applied to digital forensic investigation of cloud environments i...

This paper aims at describing the future legal challenges related to information products and services on the Mobile World Wide Web. Using a few scenarios, we describe what the most essential characteristics of the future Mobile Web will be and how information products and services will be used on it. The scenarios are built using a systematic method. As the emerging problems are very complex, ...

This article aims at describing the future legal challenges related to information products and services on the Mobile Internet and World Wide Web. Using a scenario-based methodology, we describe the most essential characteristics of the future Mobile Internet and how information products and services would be used on it. The scenarios are built using a systematic method. As the emerging proble...

caspian sea had been used a long time between iran and the soviet :union: based on agreements of 1920 and 1940, without international importance. after the soviet’s collapse and with increasing the countries of sea border from two to five, this lake was important due to geopolitical and geo-economical conditions. following these situations, the legal regime of caspian sea needed to be revised. ...