Out-law Radio

We talk to a corruption expert about how the UK's new Bribery Act could govern companies all over the world, and hear from the victorious Simon Singh on today's libel victory.

We talk to a crusading science journalist who has spent two years navigating libel laws that he says stifle scientific and academic debate and must be changed.

We dive into the rich, deep history of piracy and find that lawmakers have always been reacting, inventing the concept of intellectual property just to stymie the energetic innovations of centuries of cultural pirates.

We talk to the man behind a campaign to include one little number on eye prescriptions that could help online glasses retail to take off, and the regulator that refuses to order the inclusion.

Long-used mobile phone security was hacked in December, and a hack for 3G protection was not far behind. But how do you actually go about grabbing the signals from the sky? An expert talks us through the process and the danger for businesses.

A soon-to-be introduced new bribery law could put companies on the hook for the actions of rogue employees. We ask: what can they do to avoid prosecution?

We look at a near-500 page High Court ruling that the IT services industry has been waiting for for six years and ask: do IT suppliers need to change the way they sell?

We talk to one security expert who says that the admirable plan to permit the use of other alphabets in the making of domain names could cause security headaches.

We talk to one member of the House of Lords who is trying to rewrite parts of the Government's proposed Digital Economy law to make it more closely reflect the realities of the digital age.

Police managed to disconnect over 1,000 websites without going near a judge for a court order. How? Just by asking Nominet. Is this the future of anti-counterfeit action?

A Norwegian consumer protection group that successfully took on Apple has identified its next target: Facebook.

One academic has said that the disconnection of open Wi-Fi network operators for other people's actions under the Government's anti-filesharing plan could break EU law.

We look at new research which claims that people whose information is contained in supposedly anonymised databases can in fact be commonly identified.

We look at the UK's pioneering scheme to cut carbon emissions and ask: will it force power-hungry data centres to flee abroad?

We look into a review of Scottish litigation that recommends the introduction of the controversial class action process that some people could see as either the saviour of consumers or a gravy train for greedy lawyers.

We find out why the P3P system which allowed computers and websites to automatically negotiate the use of private information failed and look at what might replace it.

We examine the term at the heart of many copyright licences and find that nobody – not lawyers, users of content, or creators of it – is exactly sure what it means.

Inventor of the wind-up radio Trevor Baylis has called for patent infringement to be criminalised. He tells OUT-LAW Radio why.

We talk to a lobbyist who is petitioning the UK's Prime Minister to raise the profile of possibly the least talked about intellectual property right: design rights.

Feargal Sharkey, former Undertone turned industry bigwig, discusses a recent report on the real downloading habits of the UK's youth and just how many concessions the industry should make to downloaders.